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Originally Posted by Paslode

If I shoot some stranger (armed or unarmed) attempting to exit my property in the back I am going to have a lot more questions to answer, and the possibility of it being considered self defense is going to plummet, whereas if the stranger is facing me the odds of self defense are in my favor.

Same goes for the cops, or at least it should be.

I have read the kid was in a hallway and also that he was in the Administration Office and that the school was already locked down. He allegedly had been in a fight and was also carrying a knife.

Lots and lots of unknowns. We'll just have to wait and see what the investigation brings.

Sorry does not wash, if he was running and it was feared or thought that he would collect hostages then he is due to be dropped; STOP second guessing from the armchair.

Running away does not mitigate an armed threat, only that it may now be an ambush, hostage situation or anything worse then now.

Running away is the liberal BS of don't shoot unless "you have been shot first". It ranks right along side of MA's law that put a young mother in jail because she killed a home intruder without first trying to run away. Her out, a small basement window and her child was still upstairs unguarded. Mother still went to jail. They claimed she should have climbed through the window, with him in the room, and ran for help. "No life is worth property" according to the anointed, but tell that to a parent whose child is left behind. Oh yes, that law is still on the books in lovely Mass.

I will buy those guys a drink. They have caught enough hell from Monday morning quarterbacks.