During one particularly hairy incident, a man who moved into one of the units with his wife, his daughter, and her four children, pulled a gun on a Vivos contractor who had pulled up with a front-end loader to his bunker.
The resident eventually shot the contractor, injuring him. However, South Dakota’s stand-your-ground law led to a grand jury declining to indict him.
It’s telling that one of these billionaires was the type to kill a worker trying to do their job near his property. And “stand your ground” laws were created by and for gun nuts who want to murder someone. Change my mind…
Like the other commenter noted, these aren’t rich people, they are prepper types. A billionaire isnt getting a $55k bunker.
The guy who did the shooting is apparently a former cop turned EMT.
The person he shot also wasn’t a worker trying to do his job, it was a guy who worked for the company who told a mutual acquaintance that he was going to that guy’s house specifically to attack him. When he got there, he asked the guy if he’d ever killed someone, and then he said he had killed someone with his bare hands. He then started going at the guy, who shot him and then immediately rendered aid.
Not to defend a guy eho is probably a nutjob and a jerk, it sounds like a reasonable act of self defense to me.
I think it’s because the article is trying to paint a picture that may not exactly fit the reality. But I didn’t read it anyway, this comment thread looks more interesting
Yeah, I thought it was strange because famously a grand jury will indict anything, but there werent any details in the article, so I looked one up with more detail.
It’s telling that one of these billionaires was the type to kill a worker trying to do their job near his property. And “stand your ground” laws were created by and for gun nuts who want to murder someone. Change my mind…
Like the other commenter noted, these aren’t rich people, they are prepper types. A billionaire isnt getting a $55k bunker.
The guy who did the shooting is apparently a former cop turned EMT.
The person he shot also wasn’t a worker trying to do his job, it was a guy who worked for the company who told a mutual acquaintance that he was going to that guy’s house specifically to attack him. When he got there, he asked the guy if he’d ever killed someone, and then he said he had killed someone with his bare hands. He then started going at the guy, who shot him and then immediately rendered aid.
Not to defend a guy eho is probably a nutjob and a jerk, it sounds like a reasonable act of self defense to me.
Not that I don’t believe you, but do you have a link to those details? They certainly aren’t in this article…
I think it’s because the article is trying to paint a picture that may not exactly fit the reality. But I didn’t read it anyway, this comment thread looks more interesting
Yeah, I thought it was strange because famously a grand jury will indict anything, but there werent any details in the article, so I looked one up with more detail.
https://www.kotatv.com/2026/03/14/south-dakota-supreme-court-affirms-stand-your-ground-ruling-survival-bunker-shooting-lawsuit/