Why do I have to instruct you? Can you not learn for yourself? Incapable of reading or even doing a google search?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law
They are recent laws, but if you look up their history, courts have treated most self defense cases with similar precendence since the inception of our country, with the further you go back more and more states considering it implied under the right to bear arms. State lawmakers just took the opportunity to move them from precedence to practical law to avoid any more things like the Ferguson trial.
And in those laws "the individual honestly and reasonably believes that the use of deadly force is necessary to prevent the imminent death, great bodily harm, or sexual assault of himself or another individual."
Did you notice that the reasons for using deadly force do not end with preventing of imminent death? You are ONLY required in the majority of states, to have a reasonable perception of danger, any danger, in order to use deadly force, you do not have to be in an equal amount of danger, you are permitted to protect yourself from any amount of danger by any means you have available to you, and are not required to run instead of defending yourself should that be an option.
Try educating yourself instead of enforcing your opinion as law. You are wrong, you have even been wrong, for the hundreds of years that self defense was treated as such prior to these laws being formally adopted. This is a modern contrivance that didn't even require a law for our more practical predecessors, it was accepted as common sense, no one should be required to allow a person to endanger their life to the greatest degree, before being able to defend themselves or those around them.
And don't childishly put words in my mouth, I never said he 'got what was coming to him', that implies he had morally done something equal to what happened to him, which you know just as well as I, that I specifically denied. He did nothing to deserve being shot. What I said, was that what happened to him was the direct result of a casual/effect relationship which he, before and more than anyone else, had the responsibility and the means to prevent, save perhaps the person who should have been taking care of him, Ekko. Right had nothing to do with it one way or the other, the situation itself was wrong, and someone had to suffer the consequence, and the kid drew the short straw.
In addition to that, there is no logical connection between who did and did not suffer consequences and who was the victim. You are appealing to emotion because you do not have any means to back up your claim in any logical manner. There is a difference between being a victim and victimization, one was the target, the victim, of theft from another person. The other suffered the consequences of that theft. However, the kid was not 'the victim' of the whistler because it was not the whistlers intention to kill him, it was not his intention to have any victim at all, and had the kid never attempted his robbery, the whistler would have walked home with that gun in his coat without harming a single soul. Had the kid not come across the whistler though, he would have presumable found another person to rob, another victim.
And what on nonsense are you going off about? You claim that intentions matter with your argument? Okay, lets observe their intentions. The kids intention was to steal something which did not belong to him and he had not earned, and which in his hands, would have been dangerous, potentially to the point of death, for the man he was stealing it from. The mans intention, were simply to prevent his death and theft of his property, and he chose to do so by the means which would most surely assure his safety. So once again, it comes down to that harm, if intended by anyone, was intended by the kid, and the situation was his fault regardless of the consequences or how fitting that consequence was for his actions.
) and they uphold the law with the greatest of their ability. Zaun, on the other hand, is known to have violent tendencies, and is home to psychopaths and freaky human-sized anthropomorphic rats due to Zaun's reckless abandon for anything other than profit.
