Do self-defence laws (US) allow vigilantes to kill with impunity ?

@bijouxbroussard right. Let me take my big brown self to a Proud Boys protest carrying an assault rifle and shoot 3 vandals dead.

I wouldn't even make it to trial; dead in police custody.

@bijouxbroussard And , of course , race plays a big part in this.

"In an analysis of homicides done after Trayvon Martin’s death, the Urban Institute found that cases with a white perpetrator and a Black victim were 281 percent more likely to be ruled justified than cases with a white perpetrator and white victim."

@Eternity Exactly my thoughts.
@RodionRomanovitch Yes, that’s right. This country refused to make [b]lynching[/b] illegal until [b]2020[/b].

@bijouxbroussard The Jewish Law of the Din Rodef.

@NativePortlander1970 Except that in prominent cases here the pursuer was vindicated and the pursued, who’d committed no crime, received no justice. 🙁

@bijouxbroussard Trayvon Martin comes to my mind in this.

@NativePortlander1970 Exactly. A law that allows someone to kill based upon arbitrary perceptions is problematic where biases already exist.

@bijouxbroussard Indeed. Americans love to pride the US as the greatest nation on earth, yet it is also the most violent and deadly first world nation on earth, because of the proliferation of guns, and its violent gun history.