It's amazing how a little perspective can make even the average DU'er seem like one of those damn'd 2nd amendment wackos. An idiot bicyclist breaks the law, runs into a truck then proceeds to beat on the driver. Pissed driver shoots the cyclist. Remind you of anyone? (<Cough cough Trayvon cough Zimmerman cough>)
OP. Reasonable_Argument (Moocher) - Thu Aug 30, 2012 (3:23 pm)
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Bicyclist shot after colliding with pickup truck
Police said the two began arguing after the bicyclist disregarded a "Do Not Cross" signal at Telegraph and Northline roads, causing the driver to hit him. Witnesses said the bicyclist got up and confronted the driver.
"The pedestrian light was red. He wasn't supposed to be crossing and ran into the side of the truck," said witness Michelle Noffsinger. "He jumped up, he got up, and he ran around the front of the truck to the driver's side and he just started pounding on this guy. He hit him ... maybe seven times or so, and then the driver shot him and he fell to the ground. It was just really crazy."
This DU'er sticks up for the cyclist by calling the driver judge, jury, and executioner, without regard to the cycli's own decision to be his own judge, jury, and executioner:
16. Confusious (Moocher) - Thu Aug 30, 2012 (6:28 pm)
Reply to rl6214 (#3) - Post Count: 7,221
I would think that you would have to go to the hospital
if you "had the shit beaten out of you"
Doesn't say the shooter went to the hospital.
besides which, 80 people die a year by having "the shit beat out of them," 50 die a year from being hit by lightning.
30,000 die by guns. What are the chances.
The American public, judge, jury and executioner.
Doesn't really fill me with a sense of safety.
88. Confusious (Moocher) - Fri Aug 31, 2012 (8:03 pm)
Reply to discntnt_irny_srcsm (#82) - Post Count: 7,221
Retry
The American public, judge, jury and executioner. ( the American public likes things like American idol, so I already don't trust their judgment)
Doesn't really fill me with a sense of safety?, security?, trust in people to make the right judgments in a stressful time?
DBoon kinda is a bit schitzy here...
104. DBoon (Star Member) - Sat Sep 1, 2012 (12:28 am)
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The good guy is the one in the pickup truck with a gun
The bad guy who deserves to be shot is a bicyclist with his fists
And this seems right to you?
You REALLY think a bicyclist deserves to be gunned down?
And you wonder why some of us think gun advocates are dangerous psychpaths?
Oh oh, now the lousy freeper trolls come to the surface defending George Zimmerman...er, the assualted truck driver!
110. Atypical Liberal (Moocher) - Sat Sep 1, 2012 (8:27 am)
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Did the victim deserve to be assaulted?
You REALLY think a bicyclist deserves to be gunned down?
And you wonder why some of us think gun advocates are dangerous psychpaths
There is nothing psychopathic in defending oneself from violence with a firearm.
Deserving has nothing to do with it. The bicyclist was "pounding" on the victim, about 7 times, according to an eye-witness.
This is a clear-cut case of self-defense from violent assault.
I really don't understand your mindset how when someone is physically beating the shit out of an innocent person and they get shot for it how you can be sympathetic to the guy doing the beating. I really don't.
Bicyclist runs into someone's truck, flips his shit and starts beating the crap out of the driver, the driver defends himself, but suddenly it's the driver who is a dangerous psychopath.
The thread is full of people doing this. I really wonder when the first Trayvon / Zimmerman reference will come out? Maybe one of our moles can go into the room and post Zimmerman's pic as the truck driver, Trayvon's pic as the bicyclist.
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