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Originally Posted by daswig
When he reached the point that his face was within an inch of my face, I felt that an assault was imminent, either through a deliberate act on his part, or accidentally because of the way he was moving his hands. He was also demanding that I surrender my sign to him, which in this jurisdiction qualifies as attempted strongarm robbery, which is a felony. His behavior wasn't merely animated, it was aggressive and criminal. For the use of lethal force in self-defense to legally apply, there is a three pronged test, and his conduct satisfied all three prongs and then some. I gave him an opportunity to back off, and he did. If he hadn't, he'd either be dead or in jail now.
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Although I don't doubt that you had your legal shit together as far as justifiable homicide is concerned, I think that I might rather get intimidated and maybe punched over shooting someone. Just me, but I happen to think that putting up with an asshole beats being arrested, put before a grand jury, hopefully not indicted, then probably sued by the family of the other guy. This happened to a friend of mine who killed someone at a bar in self-defense...he got off but his life has been hell for the last 5 years due to the incident.