Controversial Shooting Outside Planned Parenthood — Justified?

In a wild new breakdown, Colion Noir dives into a confrontation outside a Columbia business plaza that escalated from shouting to pepper spray to a single gunshot in seconds.

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The viral video, captured by WACH Fox, shows a protest, a fistfight, and a rapid chain of bad decisions that ended with one man shot and another detained. Noir cuts through the noise the way he always does: sharp, direct, and laser-focused on the realities of self-defense.

The scene starts with tension already simmering. A regular pro-life protester stands in his usual spot: filming, preaching, doing what he does every day. Whether anyone likes what he’s doing or not, he’s legally allowed to be there.

Then the man in the black T-shirt storms straight toward him, hands buried in his pockets, crowding his space. Noir instantly flags the danger: hands in pockets can mean concealed intent, concealed weapon, or concealed aggression. It’s a universal red flag.

The protester backs up. Clear body language that he doesn’t want it to get physical. But the black-shirted man keeps pressing, closing distance, escalating. Noir’s angle is clear: self-defense isn’t about waiting to get hit, it’s about recognizing aggression before violence starts.

So when the protester deploys pepper spray, Noir calls it what it is: a reasonable, non-lethal response to someone aggressively moving in.

But instead of backing off, the man charges. He chases the protester, tackles him, and forces a full-on ground fight. A bystander tries to peel him away. A woman with a gun tries to stop the attack. Everyone intervening is trying to restrain him. That alone tells you who the aggressor is.

The attacker rises, resets, and charges again. That’s when the gunshot rings out.

Noir then breaks down the legal side, focusing on South Carolina law. You have no duty to retreat in a place you’re legally allowed to be. And in this case, the protester did retreat anyway.

The state’s presumption of reasonable fear doesn’t apply here because it wasn’t a home, vehicle, or business. But more importantly, the presumption also doesn’t apply to the aggressor. And based on the video, every step of escalation comes from the man in the black shirt.

Finally, Noir ends with a hard truth for gun owners: even if you’re justified, you can still be cuffed, questioned, charged, or dragged through court. Real-world self-defense is messy before, during, and long after the moment itself.

As Noir puts it: stay safe, stay trained, stay free.

Self-defense doesn’t end when the threat goes down. That’s when the real battle begins. Lawyers. Prosecutors. Headlines. USCCA Members never fight that battle alone. Find out how.

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