"Force likely to cause death or great bodily harm is justified in self-defense only if a person reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm." (FROM
Legal Definition of Self-Defense Defense) I don't see anything saying except if the BG is a Security Guard.
This part is not meant to start a flame war, or offend anyone, especially those that know the INNOCENT victims. The guard was 100% wrong, he probably demanded the unreasonable, and what he did was probably illegal. The security guard may just have been a psyco out to kill someone, he may have been on drugs, who knows. (I say probably because we were not there). But probably not.
It sounds like the victims were probably wrapped up in their argument and were acting in an aggressive manner when the security guard arrived and he felt he needed to take control of the situation, in his stupid, untrained, "monkey brained" (
Monkey Dance) driven fashion. What happened was:
the following comes from:
Violence Behaviorial Correction
“Behavior Correcting Violence”
“The goal of this kind of violence is to put an end to unacceptable behavior”
“Behavior correcting violence is deeply intertwined with threat displays”
Why did the security guard show up? Because the victims, in his eyes, were acting outside of the range of acceptable behavior, ON HIS TURF.
Why did he draw his gun? As a threat display so the victims would modify their behavior.
Why did he shoot? Because the victims didn’t modify their behavior to the gunman’s satisfaction. (the gunman may have been asking for something completely unreasonable which the victims could not have managed!!!)
Could the victims have done something different and not been shot? There are times to challenge the guy with the gun, there are times to kiss his feet. If you know what is going on, you have the choice. If you do not know, you cannot choose.