http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3650775#3650830Oh my.
Caveat: I've copied-and-pasted hardly any, if at all, of the comments by anti-2nd Amendment primitives, because they're all the usual standard run-of-the-mill boilerplate talking points; we all know what they are.
WriteDown (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:03 PM
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Man fatally shoots suspected robber in Terrell park(Concealed Carry)
A 17-year-old died after trying to rob a man at gunpoint Wednesday night at a park in Terrell, police said.
Terrell police were dispatched to Ben Gill Park in the 100 block of Lions Club Lane about 10:20 p.m. Wednesday after receiving a report of a possible robbery and shooting, said Capt. Arley Sansom of the Terrell Police Department.
A man told police that after walking his dog at the park, a group of males robbed him at gunpoint. The man, a licensed handgun carrier, pulled his weapon, shot one of the men and shot at the vehicle the men were using, Capt. Sansom said. The shooter was not injured.
Officers found Markee Lamar Johnson, 17, on the ground with serious head injuries. He was taken to a nearby hospital and later transferred to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, where he was pronounced dead.....
Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/yahoolat...
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Lucky this guy had a gun.
franksolich agrees.
A gun-carrying society is a polite society.
baldguy (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:05 PM
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1. And for every story like this, there's ten of an innocent being inadvertently killed.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:17 PM
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14. And he was judged innocent of any crime.
I would've done the same thing.
Screw 'em.
KansDem (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:23 PM
Response to Reply #14
17. You would have executed two suspects for B&E?
Even when the 911 dispatcher told you not to?
Really?
Well, if they hadn't been breaking and entering, they wouldn't have gotten into trouble.
How hard is that to understand?
WriteDown (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:28 PM
Response to Reply #17
21. Having been the victim of a B&E...
I would have shot them both multiple times. Not even any doubt.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:33 PM
Response to Reply #17
27. If I thought my property might be at risk, as well.
Or if the neighbor was a friend.
In Texas, one has the right to do that.
Call me overly sensitive, if you wish, but violent crimes (B&E is not like, say, simple vandalism) against persons and property really bother me.
Xenotime (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:49 PM
Response to Reply #14
41. So, youre basicaly saying screw em to human life.
Thats really progressive..
Hmmmm. Being pro-life, against infanticide, is progressive now, too?
Wow.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:57 PM
Response to Reply #41
46. Not all of them.
Just jerkoffs who break into people's houses and rob, rape and murder.
For some reason, I have a difficult time feeling all warm and fuzzy about that sort of scum.
In all honesty, when this account first aired, my first thought was, "Damn, if he had them on the ground, he should have knee-capped them". Give 'em something to think about, every minute of the rest of their miserable lives.
There some anti-2nd Amendment primitive who keeps interruption the discussion by quoting anecdotal examples of innocent people being harmed by firearms; the the anti-2nd Amendment primitive is rather verboise, I omitted copying-and-pasting all that acerage.
krispos42 (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:29 PM
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22. For every story like this...
There are about 6,000 where a person used a gun in self-defense where the attacker did not die.
Law abiding people rarely shoot criminals because criminals don't like to confront armed people. Criminals can disengage from their criminal attempt by simply running away. Intended victims can't. This is why there are relatively few (about 200) justified homicides a year despite the large number of of defensive gun uses a year.
There's more; the primitives really seem to dislike any concept of self-defense.
alllyingwhores (230 posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:41 PM
Response to Reply #1
33. Yea...and for every story like this, there are a hundred where the armed robber...
...shoots and kills the victim. If I'm being robbed at gunpoint, I would like to be the one that walks away, not the f__ker that walks up to me and holds a gun to my head.
Scout (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:07 PM
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2. that's America for ya' ... forget due process, death penalty for property crimes!
Sure, why not? One shouldn't take what doesn't belong to him.
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:25 PM
Response to Reply #2
19. Robbing someone at gunpoint is not a property crime
It's a violent crime against a person.
Endangered Specie (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 03:18 PM
Response to Reply #19
61. oh but I'm sure the robber was 'forced' to do it for some such reason...
how dare someone shoot him back!
Why do people defend the criminal so damn much?
They're primitives, that's why.
Pimitives always justify the unjustifiable, defend the indefendable.
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 04:31 PM
Response to Reply #61
102. Because that criminal was someone's baby once
And for just about every baby there is a mother who will say "My baby didn't do anything wrong!"
Locrian (726 posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:10 PM
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6. huh?
How did the guy manage to shoot someone *while* being held up a "gunpoint"? Quick draw?
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:21 PM
Response to Reply #6
16. Probably as they were walking away with his cash.
Dumb bastards probably turned their backs on the victim.
Too bad he wasn't quicker on the trigger.
Good riddance, Markee, the world is a slightly better place without you.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:19 PM
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15. Now THAT'S an effective deterrent for you.
Dear Markee won't be robbing anyone anytime soon.
zonkers (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:31 PM
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24. I have no problem with the victim defending his life. Shooting at the fleeing car is another story. At that point, his life was probably not in danger. A stray bullet could have killed someone or whatever. I bet he was glad he had a gun. Probably saved his life.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-18-08 02:37 PM
Response to Reply #24
28. Agreed. Shooting at the car was reckless.
Unless the car was at point-blank range (which, obviously, it was not), that was a dumb thing to do. I'll bet they don't teach that in Carry Class.
That's one big monster of a bonfire.
About halfway down the page, the anti-2nd Amendment primitives get really stupid.
I'd recommend this bonfire as well worth going over to see in its entirely.