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In a wild new breakdown, Colion Noir dives right into a confrontation exterior a Columbia enterprise plaza that escalated from shouting to pepper spray to a single gunshot in seconds.
The viral video, captured by WACH Fox, exhibits a protest, a fistfight, and a speedy chain of unhealthy selections that ended with one man shot and one other detained. Noir cuts by the noise the way in which he at all times does: sharp, direct, and laser-focused on the realities of self-defense.
The scene begins with pressure already simmering. An everyday pro-life protester stands in his standard spot: filming, preaching, doing what he does on daily basis. Whether or not anybody likes what he’s doing or not, he’s legally allowed to be there.
Then the person within the black T-shirt storms straight towards him, arms buried in his pockets, crowding his area. Noir immediately flags the hazard: arms in pockets can imply hid intent, hid weapon, or hid aggression. It’s a common purple flag.
The protester backs up. Clear physique language that he doesn’t need it to get bodily. However the black-shirted man retains urgent, closing distance, escalating. Noir’s angle is obvious: self-defense isn’t about ready to get hit, it’s about recognizing aggression earlier than violence begins.
So when the protester deploys pepper spray, Noir calls it what it’s: an affordable, non-lethal response to somebody aggressively shifting in.
However as a substitute of backing off, the person costs. He chases the protester, tackles him, and forces a full-on floor combat. A bystander tries to peel him away. A lady with a gun tries to cease the assault. Everybody intervening is attempting to restrain him. That alone tells you who the aggressor is.
The attacker rises, resets, and costs once more. That’s when the gunshot rings out.
Noir then breaks down the authorized facet, specializing in South Carolina legislation. You haven’t any responsibility to retreat in a spot you’re legally allowed to be. And on this case, the protester did retreat anyway.
The state’s presumption of cheap worry doesn’t apply right here as a result of it wasn’t a house, car, or enterprise. However extra importantly, the presumption additionally doesn’t apply to the aggressor. And based mostly on the video, each step of escalation comes from the person within the black shirt.
Lastly, Noir ends with a tough reality for gun house owners: even in the event you’re justified, you may nonetheless be cuffed, questioned, charged, or dragged by courtroom. Actual-world self-defense is messy earlier than, throughout, and lengthy after the second itself.
As Noir places it: keep protected, keep skilled, keep free.
Self-defense doesn’t finish when the risk goes down. That’s when the true battle begins. Attorneys. Prosecutors. Headlines. USCCA Members by no means combat that battle alone. Learn how.
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