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Old August 6, 2009, 04:00 PM   #36
bababooey32
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A guy yelling that he is going to kick your *** and is in a position to do
I would submit that being on the other side of a car door is not in a position to do so. Breaking a car window with one's fist is unlikely at best. Were he brandishing a tire iron inhis off-hand...OK. Were he kicking your car door/window in a blatant attempt to enter...OK. But Yelling "I'm going to kick your @$$" is not justification for use of deadly force, IMHO. The fact that having a gun pointed at him didn't make him immediately back down and that the OP did not then shoot the assailant tells me that even OP was not truly in "reasonable fear of life or limb".

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It kind of amazes me I'm on this side of the argument because I'm usually the flee not flight person...
I'm usually on the other! Funny how the same scenario is viewed so many different ways by seemingly like-minded folks!
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