Stand Your Ground ... Again

After watching the video, I'm just surprised that any of the people at that party could have been teachers.Texas: You need some help with your education system.

Also after watching the video, I have to wonder why the hell this guy was ever convicted of anything.Did he do something wrong?Or was his last name just Rodriguez?Edited by Jon, : No reason given.

According to the bill, there are other 'qualifiers' for the use of deadly force. It doesn't appear as though one must actually be in one's "habitation, vehicle, or place of business or employment":

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80(R) SB 378:

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(e) A person who has a right to be present at the location
where the force is used, who has not provoked the person against
whom the force is used, and who is not engaged in criminal activity
at the time the force is used is not required to retreat before
using force as described by this section.

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I think it could easily be argued that a person has the right to be present in any public space, such as the road/street where the incident took place. I cannot find where it is in the video that Rodriguez provokes the party goers. He was in the street. They drove to where he was. They got out of the vehicle. They began to harass him. They then moved to assault him. He warned them he had a fire arm. They backed away. Dicking around ensued. The party goers were too drunk to realize the severity of what was going on and someone decided to charge at him anyway, even after initially backing off. He shot to defend himself from the assault.Is there something I'm missing? But that's only one piece of the bill. There's more to it than that; see my quote above. But those three things you listed aren't all the qualifiers, as you'll see when you check my link to the text of the bill.JonEdited by Jon, : No reason given.

Absolutely. Given a system of trial-by-jury, one almost wonders why laws even exist at all. Juries rarely take them into consideration when handing out verdicts. His decisions weren't the best. The morality of what he did might definitely be something to question. That's just the thing though: where is it that he confronts the drunken people with a camera and a gun? As far as I can tell, he was standing on the street recording the house where the party was atapparently to collect evidence of his neighbor's disruptive behaviorwhen a truck full of men with weapons pulls up to him. The men, who are with the party, get out and he asks them to turn the music downsomething that is well within his right to do and not confrontational at all. They then try to assault him, and so the story goes from there.I just don't see the part where he did any confronting. It seems as though he had already called the police multiple times.