...In the end, the incident was one of the criminal's making, not the self-defense shooter. If he didn't want to get shot in the back, there was an easy way for him to accomplish that... don't be a criminal that day.
What keeps being fallen back on is that he was a criminal and it serves him right getting shot for stealing a purse, or what if he had gone on to do something worse. If that's the logic here, then let's extend it out past this incident. Let's just shoot everybody on the grounds that they might at some point in their lives fall on hard times and turn to a life of crime. Let's shoot jaywalkers, because as we all know, that's just a gateway crime to mass murder. Let's tell convenience store owners it's alright to shoot anyone regardless of age, race, sex, religion, or creed in the back as they try to run out of their stores with the snickers bar they just pocketed, because after all they were engaged in a cime and deserved it, be it a 40 year old man, or a 15 year old girl who was doing it on a dare. I don't understand how life can be regarded so cheaply not to find it ridiculous to shoot someone over things. Even if it's every penny you have in the world, that gives you the right to take one of God's creatures and erase them from existence? You take life to prevent your own life from being taken from you, why is that so extreme a view?
Boris: My "buddy the socialist and his cronies in congress", I hadn't realized McCain had won the election and switched parties. If you must know, I'm a Democrat who voted for McCain. I think gays should be allowed to marry, and I think that abortion is wrong. I'm a Methodist, and am currently on unemployment. When I was working I paid my taxes to support not only social security for my elders, but welfare for those that need a hand.
And all of that has nothing to do with the fact theft is not a justification for killing someone.
Furhtermore, labeling people accomplishes nothing. If we wan't to protect our 2nd ammendment rights and stop people from taking our guns, it's going to take conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats, homosexuals and heterosexuals, Christians, Muslims and Atheists all working together. Devisiveness only makes us weaker. Try to think about that before you post. Be a team player.
Lastly, I support shooting BG's that deserve to be shot, ie. those attempting to take life.
Actually, I think even in this case where the scumbag was deleted by a non-police officer, the scumbag's cohorts would get charged for the scumbag's death. If there's a cadre of dirtbags robbing a Stop `n' Rob, and the cashier pulls a shotgun and blows the two at the counter away and the wheelman outside floors it and is caught later, that wheelman still gets charged with his accomplices' deaths.NDS said:Had this woman been a cop, any accomplices would have been charged in this criminals death.
We're in the arena of public opinion. It is not my responsibility to state your case well. It's my responsibility to state my case well. For your case to be well stated is your responsibility.CathyInBlue, I think your[sic] not stating my case in a favorable light.
As long as I am still in the "immediate" aftermath of a criminal attack, the perpetrators are an "immediate" danger to me unless they can demonstrate by positive action to be surrendering, disarming, and offering no more resistance to me.But, I certainly know that a person who is running away from me with his back turned not brandishing a weapon is of no "immediate" danger to me.
So much for "all life is precious" I guess.
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