Originally Posted by JeffP
I think you’re spot on. Dead guy should have left when gun came out. And much less tried to take the rifle from shooter.

But I think it also falls under, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Absolutely.

A legal shoot when the father tried taking the gun from the home owner and a stupid move on the fathers part to try and take the gun.

But the father wasn’t a realist threat, it sounds like the mother was playing games with visitation and that the father probably had a right to be pissed. Her boyfriend got the gun more to be an alpha than out of fear. He’ll probably dump the mom in a month and the kids left with no father over a situation that never needed to happen.