• Pacmanlives@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Current report is the gun accidentally went off. Dude deserves the books thrown at him though. Kids where already off his property and honestly where not a threat in the first place. This is like that one story where the dude shot at a car turning around in his driveway.

    As someone who owns multiple guns both for sport and hunting these are the people that should not ever own one!!!

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      5 days ago

      Not his property. His gf’s property. Dude has no legal right whatsoever to guard property that isn’t his own, does he?

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          5 days ago

          Well if he “drove over to her property”, he might not even be an occupant

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            4 days ago

            If you drive to your friend’s house for dinner, you’re a legal occupant of their house.

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        4 days ago

        That’s not entirely true.

        When I took my concealed carry class in Tx there was a section on this.

        It depends heavily on the relationship between you and the owner of the property. The example given in the class was a good neighbor relationship and suggested talking about this before something happened.

        I would expect that if the shooter and the owner are in contact during the event to weigh heavily on it.

        The gist is, it depends state-to-state but I would expect that their relationship would make an otherwise LEGAL use of a firearm OK. (I’m really not sure if this is a legal use…)