mljdeckard
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So, speaking of reasons I am easing away from Facebook and back to THR,
There's a guy (who says he is a lawyer) arguing that legally, you are safe if you hit an innocent bystander in a self-defense shooting, because as long as you were correctly acting in self-defense, it cannot be said you were acting with negligence. I (and several others) are saying, it is foolish to advise someone; "Oh no, it's totally ok if you were acting in self-defense. You can't get in trouble for hitting someone else." He challenged us to come up with a single case where someone got sued for this, and I said it is mostly unlikely because actual events of innocent bystanders getting hit are extremely rare.
Am I missing something here? I am going to continue to advice my CCW students that they are responsible for everything their bullet hits.
(If the mods think this is too suppositional or inflammatory and yank it, I understand.)
There's a guy (who says he is a lawyer) arguing that legally, you are safe if you hit an innocent bystander in a self-defense shooting, because as long as you were correctly acting in self-defense, it cannot be said you were acting with negligence. I (and several others) are saying, it is foolish to advise someone; "Oh no, it's totally ok if you were acting in self-defense. You can't get in trouble for hitting someone else." He challenged us to come up with a single case where someone got sued for this, and I said it is mostly unlikely because actual events of innocent bystanders getting hit are extremely rare.
Am I missing something here? I am going to continue to advice my CCW students that they are responsible for everything their bullet hits.
(If the mods think this is too suppositional or inflammatory and yank it, I understand.)