Nope
Yup.
Takes about thirty seconds to look up the definition of provocation and guess what? You're still wrong.
There is absolutely nothing in the initial reports to suggest mutual combat, neither one fucked the other guy's wife, and neither one welched on a bet, etc, etc.
Being insulted does not justify attempted murder and it doesn't not nullify the self defense claims of the person you attacked. That is the law.
It's not an informed legal take to suggest that being insulted justifies attempted murder AND also nullifies self defense against said attempted murder. Especially when the supposed insult was entirely imagined by you.
That's a "blacks get to do whatever they want" take.
How do you know? You grew up in an environment in which saying nigger was worse than blasphemy. Nevermind the societal problems caused by making a false idol of a lesser race, but you literally don't know what would be different if you hadn't grown up in a politically concocted climate of fear.
If you're happy with self censoring yourself, that's fine for you.
The guy that tried to kill me for my wallet twenty years ago? I didn't start a damn thing with him. But I did finish it. So I personally think the idea that you can always count on being left alone by criminal and subhuman elements of society to be a foolish one.
You know what the phone created? Wall Street.
Ease of communication favors the organized. Which is to say it favors the kind of people who organize and collude and plot and scheme. It does not favor the average person, who uses it like a toy instead of a weapon.
Sure it's had positive uses. But pretending like it didn't have a large number of severe and far reaching drawbacks is foolish.
What IS the solution then, other than free range lunatics?
I want to hear the answer too, because as far as I can tell there isn't one. Locking up the insane is one of the few legitimate purviews of government, because regardless of what the corrupted laws and tyrannical judiciary says, there is no moral right whatsoever to be a blood hungering maniac or incurably violent retard.
To hell with every variety of devil worshipping sand barbarian.