Stand Your Ground in Houston

| July 25, 2013

David sent us this story from Houston today. I’ve seen it a couple of times over the past few days, but apparently it’s a thing now. 23-year-old Shanequia McDonald was accosted by 58-year-old Louis Daniel in a bar. When she left, he followed her to the service station, where she drew a 22-caliber rifle from her car when she saw that Daniel had a knife and an umbrella and bowed up at her. He punched her and she shot him dead. From KHOU;

Family members identified the victim as 58-year-old Louis Daniel.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to police, the shooter claimed the man had made unwanted sexual advances and refused to leave her alone. She also told police she feared for her life.

According to witnesses, the victim was acting strangely.

“He had an expression like he was just mad at the world,” said Jon Thomas who was in the parking lot at the time of the gunfire.

“She just had the gun pointed down to the ground and said get back. I guess he didn’t expect or like that.”

I don’t know how Daniel accosts the woman and follows her, then threatens her with a knife and suddenly he’s a “victim”. He’s a victim of his own stupidity. But anyway, it looks like that in Texas it’s spurred a debate about “stand your ground”. Whatever. The guy made it clear that the only way the young woman was going to come out of that situation was after Daniel became “the victim”.

Category: Feel Good Stories, Guns

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Smitty

VOV, zimmerman wanted to be a hero, its all he ever seems to have wanted to be. what is missed, is that he actually followed the dispatcher’s instructions, he just isnt very smart either. the dispatcher asked him where Martin was, so he got out of his truck to locate him, dispatcher says we dont need you to follow him, he goes to get back in his truck. reasonable common sense would say, dispatcher asks where is he now, the response is “he went between two houses at this address, i do not see him”, not “ill find him”. i wont argue that that whole situation doesnt end the way it did if zimmerman stays in his truck, but he thought he was doing the right thing being the neighborhood protector.

the same thing can be said here, that if the gal here stayed in her car and called the police, this guy wouldnt be dead.

i also claim both dead people earned their own ends