Reply #61: Just the writer trying to paint the complete picture [View All]

[jobycom]

He wasn't trying to make a legal argument. Someone shooting at a dog on his property has a different emotional feel than someone shooting at a dog and two men from behind after they've left his property.

Reminds me of the old medieval laws on adultery. If a man caught his wife with another man and killed them both, he would not be charged with murder if they were still in the bedroom when he killed them. If they had made it out of the bedroom, it would be murder. That was the medieval way of codifying blind rage, basically. If you let them out of the room, you were no longer mad enough to use blind rage as a defense.