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<\/a><\/p>\nStevenson – at 60 years old a small man, 5’7 and maybe 150 pounds, with a law degree from the U of M and closely-cropped hair – is a truly hateful man. \u00a0He also has a spotless criminal record, and has a Minnesota permit to carry a handgun; “believing rotten things” is not a condition for denial. \u00a0As hateful as his beliefs are, he’s never been in a physical fight in his life. He’s got a little .380 in his pocket.<\/p>\n
After his speech, and after coffee and coffee cake with the assembled louts, Stevenson leaves the meeting, walking out onto a cold, dark, wind-swept Brooklyn Center street to get to the parking lot, a block away. \u00a0He’s being followed, he notices, as he tries to walk toward the parking lot, by a large woman in a “trench coat mafia” duster. His spidey sense, augmenting his far-left Nazi paranoia, kicks in; he walks a little faster. \u00a0The woman walks faster still. \u00a0Stevenson breezes through the stoplight to get across the street to the parking lot; the woman breaks into a jog, yelling “Hey!”<\/p>\n
Stevenson turns, and notices the woman appears very aggressive. \u00a0He starts backpedaling, toward his car, yelling “what?”<\/p>\n
“I’m coming for YOU, Stevenson!” the woman – Hannah Rothenshteyn-Gabler, 29, a 5’11 former rugby player and current competitive bodybuilder, bellows.<\/p>\n
(By an odd coincidence, a video production class was just letting out in a building across the street. \u00a0Seven people with video cameras happen to videotape the entire incident, from a variety of angles, with crystal-clear audio, albeit with a style overly derivative of early John Sayles).<\/p>\n
At this point, it was Stevenson’s opinion<\/em> and perception<\/em> that something bad would happen if he waited to meet the woman.<\/p>\n Stevenson backpedals, yelling “DO NOT ATTACK ME! \u00a0HELP! \u00a0DO NOT ATTACK ME!” – because while Stevenson may be a neo-Nazi, he did <\/em>pay attention in concealed carry training; he remembers the part where his instructor said “when you’re carrying, you have to turn into the biggest p**sy in the world”. \u00a0“HELP! \u00a0DO NOT ATTACK ME!”<\/p>\n As he backpedals through the parking lot, he can’t see the banana peel, left earlier in the evening by a littering driver, lying in his path. \u00a0As he backpedals, he slips and falls squarely on his butt, sprawled on the ground, dazed for a shaved instant.<\/p>\n Rothenshteyn-Gabler runs up to where Stevenson lies on the ground, and pulls a 16 pound sledgehammer from under her duster, and hefts it above her head. \u00a0“I am going to pound your brains into silly-putty”, she says. \u00a0“And then I’m going to soak what’s left of you in gasoline and light you on fire!”, she bellows, preparing to smash the hammer down on Stevenson’s face.<\/p>\n Feeling himself – in his opinion<\/em>, informed by his perception<\/em>\u00a0of what was going on –\u00a0to be in imminent danger of death and great bodily harm, having established that he was an unwilling participant and <\/em>making a very credible and reasonable effort to try\u00a0to run away, Stevenson pulls his .380 and fires one shot. \u00a0It hits Rothenshteyn-Gabler in the head, killing her.<\/p>\n Stevenson calls the police, who detain him, but review the evidence – including the seven videotaped accounts – and note that Stevenson behaved correctly in every possible way.<\/p>\n But the Hennepin County Attorney brings charges – Second Degree Murder. \u00a0Stevenson’s lawyer mounts an affirmative defense, a “self defense” claim, noting that yes, Stevenson did <\/em>shoot Rothenshteyn-Gabler, but…:<\/p>\n The prosecutor got up to respond. \u00a0“But ladies and gentlemen of the jury – while the defendant meets all four criteria of the self-defense claim, HE IS A NEO-NAZI! \u00a0I mean, come on! \u00a0He’s a NEO NAZI! \u00a0He HATES Jews and women and blacks! \u00a0HE’s A NEO NAZI! \u00a0A NEO NAZI!”<\/p>\n Two questions for you, the audience:<\/p>\n For the first: \u00a0If the Jury doesn’t nullify the law and ignore that, noxious personal beliefs aside, Stevenson acted correctly? \u00a0They’ll most likely acquit him; hateful as he is, he obeyed the law<\/em>. \u00a0There are no guarantees with a jury, but given impeccable behavior, he could prove the correctness of his actions. \u00a0He’d make his lawyer a little wealthier, of course.<\/p>\n For the second? \u00a0The lawyer would have to come up with a better argument, one that hinged less on “HE’S A NAZI”, and more on proving his fear wasn’t reasonable.<\/p>\n Tha’ts really about it.<\/p>\n I bring this up because some local leftybloggers want to ignore the facts and pretend that the first part is what matters, when it suits them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Spotty” from Cucking Stool<\/em>\u00a0– who loves to dish all sorts of insulting crap about people, but would really really prefer that nobody use his real name, because while he loooooves dishing it out, he doesn’t want to take it – is, as we showed last year, one of the worst sources there is on matters of law when it comes to guns<\/a>, which is ironic seeing as he’s a lawyer and all.<\/p>\n\n
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