Funny you say that...
A few months prior to Vang's situation, I just bought some land. I was on scholarship, and I had some money left over. I didn't want to party my money away, I figured it was a decent investment. I put up some private property signs around the land. A few weeks later, I brought some friends to check out what I bought. We called it the Savage Land because there wasn't anything on it (Plus, we were comic geeks...for those that got the reference). As we were walking, we met up with a hunter. It went kinda like this...
Me: Hey, how you doing?
Hunter: Mmm.
ME: See anything out here today?
Hunter: Not with the noise you making.He was giving some attitude, and it looked like he was going to say some junk. So I replied,
Me: Sorry. I just bought this land from Person X a few weeks ago. I put up some private property signs too. My friends and I were just surveying the land. The plan is to walk around it starting from the north side.
Hunter: Alright. You have a nice day. He didn't give any attitude after that. There was no need for me to pick a fight because he had the gun. A few weeks later, the Chai Vang situation occurred. It wasn't the same thing, but similar.
The stand your ground won't help him because he he went after the other people. Maybe if he shot them right then and called the cops, that might of helped him. Although it was a bad thing that those people got killed, something good did come out of it. The event showed people how people shouldn't handle a situation like that, from both parties.
Something similar happened to my cousins. They made a smart choice and decided to leave instead of making the situation worse.