Guns for Beginners: Don’t Return to a Conflict

By Robert Farago

The rules on justifiable homicide vary from state to state. Take the time to Google and read your state’s laws. Generally speaking, you are OK to shoot someone in self-defense if that person poses an imminent, credible threat of death or grievous bodily harm. But there are caveats. One of the most important . . .

You must not be the aggressor. If you start a fight, you’re not going to have an easy time convincing the police, prosecutor, DA, judge and/or jury that you acted in self-defense. That’s true even if your combatant escalates the conflict to a potentially lethal level. And it’s certainly not true if a fight ends and you re-engage. Like this [via ski.com]:

A Sevier County man has been charged with murder in a shooting that followed an apparent brawl.

William Gene Muir, 39, [above] was charged with murder Monday in 6th District Court in the death of David Rioja, 36. Rioja’s body was found after two 911 calls came into dispatchers on Nov. 22 — one reporting shots fired, and another reporting an assault.

In the second call, a man later identified as Muir “said he had been in a fight with a man with …Read the Rest

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