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As you all know, we who CC have an obligation to avoid dangerous situations. We have an obligation to lose face and walk away in any confrontation.
Sounds like only one driver was at fault. The guy in the first car may have been justified as the tailgater was the aggressor.
Tailgating or aggressive driving is justification for shooting ?? Be a lot of dead people in this world if that is the case.
If someone is following you, pulling over and entering a confrontation is the LAST FU****G THING you should do. Getting away by any means possible should be your focus. But that is just me.
I think that you missed the point. It seems that he was saying that he was shot at, therefore he was justified in using deadly force in the protection of his own life.
I get the point. If he felt that level of threat, the return shooting MAY have been justified.
Did he escalate the situation by pulling over, or was he trying to defuse the situation by taking himself out of the equation?
If you tailgate me, I simply pull over and let you by.
By pulling over, he responded to the aggressors interview moves and tactics. Now the aggressor knows he can proceed to step 2 of his interview process by confronting the target, and seeing if he can complete his intended actions. The target becomes completely defensive in this situation and that is a bad thing.
How does him pulling over take him out of the situation or defuse the situation ? You do not defuse the situation by responding to the aggressors actions with the action the aggressor wants you to take. You still have situational control until the minute you respond and pull over.
As long as you are still mobile and under way and refusing to respond to the aggressors actions, you are still offensive and in a protective mode. If the aggressor continues to pursue you, you still have the option to take your fleeing actions up a few notches to try and get away.
The aggressor in this case had every intention apparently of assaulting this person for whatever reason he had. Allowing the situation to get to a point where he could execute that intention was the fatal mistake on the targets part.