Self-Defense Is Legal in North Carolina

North Carolina man not charged in deadly shooting; ‘acted to defend himself’

According to the Asheville Police Department, at around 12:07 a.m. Sunday officers were called to Rankin Avenue near College Street for a reported shooting. At the scene, they found Andy Garcia Porras dead in the roadway and multiple others who were hit or grazed by gunfire.

After investigating the shooting, police, in consultation with the Buncombe County District Attorney’s Office, determined the shooting was in self-defense.

It started when a group of men were seen harassing some women. This was witnessed by the bouncer to a club. The men were then denied entry into the club. Gee, punishing bad behavior? Must be some kind of Conservative club.

One of the guys left to get a gun. It would turn out to be the last bad decision he would make. In the meantime a patron of the club came to help the bouncer; the patron was armed.

When Porras got back, with his gun, a gunfight ensued. Both shooters and several other people were hit.

“The evidence indicates that the patron was not the aggressor and acted to defend himself during a rapidly escalating and dangerous situation,” police said in a news release.

The police go on to make a bland statement about tragedy and the sanctity of all life. Clearly the dead guy didn't feel that way. He was willing to kill because he didn't think his bad behavior - harassing women - should be punished in any way. He didn't get his way, and like a two-year-old child was throwing a tantrum, except his tantrum included a loaded weapon.

It is hard for me to see this as anything but Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0. I expect that in the next day or two we will hear for this guy's family, about how he was a choir boy, and getting ready to go to college and change the world or whatever, and we will hear how they don't like legal self-defense.