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LadyPact -> RE: Senseless shooting: Gunman kills man with Alzheimersquiquit (3/6/2014 6:13:16 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kdsub
LadyPact..Rattling the doorknob is not trying to force your way in... calling the police would be appropriate however when someone does that at 4 in the morning... turning on the light...asking what they want.... telling them to leave... telling them you are calling the police... all are and would have been appropriate things to do... sneaking out the back and shooting someone is not.
Lets say it was a criminal... what would be the right thing to do?
Turn off interior lights
Call the police
Get your girlfriend in a locked room
Keep your gun at the ready with a clear view of the door
Wait for the police.
The last thing you should do is leave your girlfriend alone unprotected.
Go out into the dark without knowing where and how many or the intentions of the person or persons awaiting you.
Discharge a weapon multiple times in the dark without a good view of your target and where your neighbors could be in the line of fire.
I am not saying these were not an extraordinary set of circumstances only that this mans rash aggressive unnecessary actions put his girlfriend...himself... his neighbors at risk and killed a poor, sick, cold, scared, lost man seeking help.
These sort of tragedies are becoming relatively common because of the gun culture that is becoming prevalent over the last 20 years.
Butch
Hi Butch. How have you been?
I think we each bring our own things to the table on this subject. I just want you to know that I definitely understand that, even if you don't understand Mine.
It's unfortunate that we don't agree. This honestly isn't an attempt to argue. Some of what you are saying above, we're not completely opposite. Some, we are.
Rattling the doorknob. The doorknob has a purpose. No matter what term gets used for it, rattling, jiggling, turning...... The thing is made to open the door. I might be meaner than you, but I'm not going to be feeling great that anybody is doing that in the middle of the night.
calling the police They did do that.
turning on the light I don't know why they didn't do that. The only logical thing that I can come up with for it is that, potentially, the light didn't work. (That's a guess. Not something I know.)
asking what they want I can't promise I'd do this. Unlike Hendrix, I have a female voice.
telling them to leave I think whatever was said the three times the man was warned before shots were fired would be in this category.
telling them you are calling the police Unknown. Could have happened. Might have not.
There's a lot of things that aren't covered in the links. I can only speak from My own perspective. I wish I knew things about the layout of the man's house. I also wish I knew whether the guy was trying to look out through a peephole because I stand 5'2" and usually, they are too high for Me to see through. If it's a two entrance home, hiding in a spot, hoping the cops get there before an intruder got in..... I don't know about that. My chances might be better going outside because I know where the noises came from at the door. The person on the other side of the door wouldn't be looking for Me outside.
Some of the responses on the thread (not saying yours) have been about people making comments that were related to fear. Almost like it's some kind of shameful thing. I may not be proud of the fact that somebody at the door at 4:00 AM would at least startle Me, and messing with the doorknob in any way would probably down right scare Me, but I'm not ashamed of it. Had I been to the war in Iraq, like Hendrix had, I'd even be willing to bet that fear had kept Me alive at some points.
It was extraordinary circumstances and I'm sorry that the man is dead. I feel for the old woman who couldn't manage to keep her sick husband in the house. It must be horrible for her. I just know that My first thought isn't going to be that the highly unlikely circumstances would be the first thing to cross My mind.
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