surely "your six year old daughter was asking for it" has got to be considered some sort of "fighting words" or at least a reasonable trigger for intense anger
They could easily argue that going there armed and opening with pulling the gun on the guy makes you the aggressor and the initial provocation. Which, they really aren't wrong about, even if morally its exactly what you should do.
True, but still, you'd think that would at least somewhat mitigate things. Yeah, pulling a gun is bad, but telling him his daughter wanted it is completely unrelated to the gun, and other cases have been tossed out when it was deemed an emotional response was understandable. Maybe charge him with intimidation and brandishing, but not murder, or something.
Heck, if people can get away with murdering people because they claimed they said "nigger," I think "I didn't rape your six year old, she was into it" is certainly a reasonable excuse to, well, you know, the thing.
They could easily argue that going there armed and opening with pulling the gun on the guy makes you the aggressor and the initial provocation. Which, they really aren't wrong about, even if morally its exactly what you should do.
True, but still, you'd think that would at least somewhat mitigate things. Yeah, pulling a gun is bad, but telling him his daughter wanted it is completely unrelated to the gun, and other cases have been tossed out when it was deemed an emotional response was understandable. Maybe charge him with intimidation and brandishing, but not murder, or something.
Heck, if people can get away with murdering people because they claimed they said "nigger," I think "I didn't rape your six year old, she was into it" is certainly a reasonable excuse to, well, you know, the thing.