{"id":177130,"date":"2025-12-13T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=177130"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:32:50","slug":"daily-fgs-646","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=177130","title":{"rendered":"Daily FGS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nStaccato P Modern 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Held at Gunpoint, Put on Trial for Shooting Back: Portland Jury Delivers Verdict<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a story that feels ripped from a dystopian novel, a Portland pot shop employee who survived being held at gunpoint by three armed, masked robbers somehow ended up fighting for his own freedom in court.<\/p>\n

As Colion Noir put it, the quickest way to go from victim to defendant in Portland is simple: survive the attack.<\/p>\n

The case centered on 35-year-old Jason Steiner, who was working alone at the Lamoda Cannabis Shop on October 3, 2024, when three masked men burst in and held him at gunpoint.<\/p>\n

Surveillance video shows the robbers forcing Steiner out of the building. Once outside, Steiner went around the corner, retrieved a semi-auto pistol from his bag, returned, and fired 13 shots: killing the armed assailants. He immediately retreated across the street and called 911.<\/p>\n

That should have been the end. Instead, prosecutors charged him with multiple counts of murder and unlawful use of a weapon, arguing he \u201ccould have just left.\u201d His legal team countered that he acted in pure self-defense after being kidnapped at gunpoint.<\/p>\n

Steiner then spent a week and a half in trial reliving the moment a gun was pressed to his head. Only now with the state treating him as the threat.<\/p>\n

The jury didn\u2019t buy it.<\/p>\n

They returned not-guilty verdicts on every major charge, including two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of unlawful use of a weapon, and one count of attempted murder. Steiner broke down in court as the decisions were read, finally cleared of wrongdoing in the very incident he barely survived.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No Score
\nGuns America<\/a><\/p>\n

Hat tip to AW1 Rod for the link.<\/p>\n

And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms….The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
\n\u2014 Thomas Jefferson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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