Oh yes,VMI77 wrote:terryg wrote:Great defense against the shotgun - especially considering he had already been shot at that point.
Notice the first line of the article:Umm, no. He was protecting his life.Face-to-face with armed bandits firing guns, Khaled Nahal chose to protect his business and fired back.
The officer quoted in the story got it right:“He was clearly in fear of his life,” said Sgt. Scott Prince, a police detective.
I hope you don't think the phrasing here was accidental. It's a deliberate attempt to delegitimatize an act of self-defense. That's one of the reasons it's the lead sentence, because it's known that most people only read the first paragraph of most articles, and it sets the tone. The media attack on the concept of self-defense has been relentless for as long as I can remember, and their primary technique is this kind of deliberate mischaracterization.
completely. That is why I drew attention to it.