Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Ahmaud Arbery: A “Citizen’s Arrest” Gone Wrong? (LegalEagle’s Real Law Review)" video.

  1. Warning shots are not always "legal" in every jurisdiction. Or, to better clarify my position, you don't pull out a gun or fire unless the situation absolutely requires it. Or else you get in more trouble than it's worth.
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  2.  @ricefarmer8553  "never pointed it on Arbery as seen on the video" - You can hear the first shot being fired before Arbery initiates the physical confrontation.
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  3.  @Justanotherconsumer  No. I'm a 2A extremist and I don't believe that.
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  4.  @roywebb-pullman1496  so you mean sending armed men to gun down innocent people to steal their property?
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  5.  @post-leftluddite  "police, they have more training with a weapon than any civilian" - That's not entirely true. Police is known to have lackluster firearms training. If you're a hobby shooter rather than someone who simply dumped a revolver into a drawer hoping to never use it, you're most likely to have much more "training" than a cop.
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  6.  @AB-eq9mm  "maybe its not legally relevant but its relevant as to whether or not the mcmichaels had probable cause to arrest him" - That's not how it works. You can't use prior convictions to determine someone needs to be under citizen's arrest.
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  7.  @Khronogi  If you shoot someone in self-defense and you are cleared of any wrongdoing, it was because the shot was legitimate. If you don't believe your shot is gonna be legitimate, so you fire a warning shot instead, you've just admitted that there was no reason to discharge the gun in the first place. So you might get charged for whatever wrongdoing you might have accidentally committed. Now obviously if there's "no harm done" with the warning shot because it didn't hit any bystanders, and the person you scared away was actually a criminal so he doesn't press charges, etc you're probably not gonna get in trouble. But if there's an altercation, there's no clear "bad guy", and you use a deadly weapon to threaten someone, you might get in trouble. The other party can file a complaint claiming you've threatened them with a gun, or you can get charged with an unlawful discharge of a weapon in a residential area. You generally don't get in trouble for a warning shot if you had the legal right to shoot at the aggressor in the first place. And also, firing a warning shot can lead to ricochets and hurt someone who wasn't involved so you have to always mind that problem.
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  8.  @artistryartistry7239  I just wanted to say your comment only promotes more division. Homicide between different ethnic groups is uncommon.
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  9. He didn't run up to a truck. They placed a truck in his way after attempting to cut him off earlier.
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  10. Plenty of conservatives have said the McMichaels are murderers. In fact twitter conservatives went so far as to become absolute cringelords by insisting that they all checked out construction sites because real men like construction. But more importantly, former NRA spokesperson Colion Noir was one of the first to defend Arbery.
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  11. Not really. The right to own a weapon, or to carry it, has no bearing on whether or not you can become a vigilante or change the delicate nature of citizen's arrest.
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