Nobody has to shoot him, all they have to do is get him to brandish a weapon, and the illegal system will eat him for breakfast.
Sadly, this is a huge likelihood. The entire media could and would be complicit in painting him as the bad guy even if he was only engaged in a self-defense scenario. The police have shown that they will also follow in lock-step when criminal DAs pursue these cases. This country is no place for the principled man, and it is going to take a whole lot of violence to turn things right-round.
