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Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.

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RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

No, it isn’t. Self defense claims in New York are very specific.When I looked into getting a gun when I lived in Bed-Stuy I concluded after talking to a buddy at the ACLU that it was pointless because even if someone broke into my house with a gun it wasn’t self defense until they shot at me first.

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rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
And you’re just flat out incorrect

www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/35.20

A person in possession or control of, or licensed or privileged to be in, a dwelling or an occupied building, who reasonably believes that another person is committing or attempting to commit a burglary of such dwelling or building, may use deadly physical force upon such other person when he or she reasonably believes such to be necessary to prevent or terminate the commission or attempted commission of such burglary.
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michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This is a complete fantasy. You don’t even have to ensure that they are armed they represent a fatal threat by breaking into your house with you in it you would have every right to shoot them immediately

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secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The logical explanation is you don’t know the law correctly because your “friend” at the ACLU realized a wild bisexual hothead such as yourself with a gun was a recipe for disaster, understandably. So this person lied, made up a litany of non-existant jurisprudence, and the world is safer and sexier as a result. This does not mean that actual claims of self-dence go away.

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rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Most of us don’t live in NY

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- RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Not being able to claim self defense when the other party is unarmed is very common though
  
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  - rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    That’s fine. It’s almost like the law has nuance.
    
    Go read that NY law I posted to your above comment and tell me that an armed person using deadly force against an unarmed person is always illegal in New York.
    
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- secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  And you know this because…?
  
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  - rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    NY is way too small to hold 8.2 billion people.
    
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