A string of recent incidents across the U.S. have prompted fresh fears about American gun culture and notions of self-defense, especially at strangers’ doors.
In each incident, someone came to the home or vehicle of a stranger by mistake. In at least two, the alleged shooters said they were afraid or alarmed by the unknown person’s presence: a 16-year-old Black boy knocking on the wrong door, and a 20-year-old White woman in a car with friends who pulled into the wrong driveway while lost.
For some people in lines of work that require them to visit a stranger’s home unannounced, vigilance is just part of job. “I think people doing [PI and process serving for] 20-25 years may be thinking about the work differently now,” he said, citing the adoption of body-worn cameras among process servers as evidence.
“There is a narrative out there having to do with self-protection that says shoot first, questions later,” he said. “And I think that’s a terrible narrative.”
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