--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/1/06 12:51:22 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Reasonable Person Test: > > someone points a gun at you and you shoot him. It turns out to be unloaded. > No problem. > > someone, in front of you, empties their gun, checks to make sure there is no > round in the > chamber, than points it at you and you shoot him. It turns out to be > unloaded. BIG > problem. > > > > And just what are the chances of scenario number two ever happening? >
It's a radical example of the "reasonable person" clause. Here's a real life example: A guy I know very stupidly intervened when a crazy man was accosting people outside his appartment. He got his pistol and waved it in the guy's face and told him to back off, which the guy did. A few minutes later, my friend was sitting in his apparetment when someone started pounding on his door and screaming. It was the same guy, which he wisely didn't let in. The pounding grew more insistent, so my friend called 911. Meanwhile the guy is hitting the appartment security door hard enough to actually come THROUGH it and into the appartment. My friend, still on the phone, says "stop or I'll shoot. stop or I'll shoot. stop..." BANG. One shot, close range, in the heart. The police come and take thebody and gun away. The next day they bring the gun back. No hearing. "reasonable person," etc... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
