This has to be scary - guy follows and confronts black woman

"Having your life destroyed" isn't a capital crime

and it's not a physical danger.

It doesn't deserve deadly force.

Neither does someone trying to corral a dog, which is what happened here.

Stand your ground and your home is your castle doesn't apply, either.

As for the rest of it, do you even know what the word lynch actually means?

Your response is always to reach for your gun.

As for the rest of it, do you even know what the word lynch actually means?

jespah wrote:

"Having your life destroyed" isn't a capital crime

Self defense is not about punishment for crime. It is about protection from harm.

and it's not a physical danger.

True. But it is something that people should be protected from.

It doesn't deserve deadly force.

Do white people have any option left other than deadly force?

Neither does someone trying to corral a dog, which is what happened here.

That is incorrect. That isn't what happened there. He threatened her.

Stand your ground and your home is your castle doesn't apply, either.

How about just plain old protecting oneself from being harmed?

As for the rest of it, do you even know what the word lynch actually means?

Yes. It's when a mob of people harm someone for an imagined offense without regard for any principles of justice.

​the illegal killing of somebody, usually by hanging, by a crowd of people and without a trial

Your response is always to reach for your gun.

What other option do white people have left when a minority tries to harm them?

Except you're behaving like a judge, jury, and an executioner.

And I might remind you that the use of deadly force when unwarranted does not give you clean hands. It gives you the opposite.

Protected from someone trying to get a person to follow the posted rules of the park?

What's the response when someone actually brandishes a gun? Do you pull out your pocket tactical nuke? Going from zero to sixty on everything isn't just absurd; it's against the law here.

Like I said, home as a castle and stand your ground don't apply. Pulling a gun means you're threatening violence. Period.

So it's about race now?

Of course they have options! Let's see. There's running.

There's calling out to another person in the park. There's screaming for help. There's filming the incident and posting it on social media for all to see. Not every problem is a nail.

So? I repeat, if she's so scared, why isn't she running?

Removing oneself from the situation would be a lot more effective and likely safer.

After all, your belief is that we should all be packing. What if he was? Pulling out a gun escalates the situation.

Or could it be that he's got too much melanin for the Second Amendment to apply?
Does the Second Amendment apply to Black people? Does it apply to people you don't like? Does it apply to the progressives who you despise?

Oh, you sweet summer child. Here's what the Oxford Learner's Dictionary actually says about the matter.

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​the illegal killing of somebody, usually by hanging, by a crowd of people and without a trial

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/lynching#:~:text=lynching-,noun,Topics People in societyc2

But hey, you do you.

I offered a bunch upstream. This appears to be a failure of imagination on your part. I'm sorry things are so - no pun intended - black and white for you.

And how about the actual incident that this thread is about (which isn't Amy Cooper at all)? Does the woman who was in her own neighborhood and threatened for simply existing, does the Second Amendment apply to her? What are her remedies? I bet you can think of several remedies which threatened Black people can exercise. Probably several without your favorite tool. Let's hear 'em.