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joether -> RE: Senseless shooting: Gunman kills man with Alzheimersquiquit (3/11/2014 1:13:02 PM)
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer
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ORIGINAL: BamaD
After making so much of Westbrook's disability it is incredible that you can't comprehend this unless it is
just that you don't want to.
I wasn't one of those who made a lot of Westbrook's disability, Bama. As I said earlier, the matter of his Alzheimer's is irrelevant to me. Instead, I made a point about Hendrix's stupidity, and the American legal system's acceptance and excusing of it. Hendrix, to me, is obviously a gormless, rednecked, gun-loving and utterly paranoid turd who has a gun at the ready so he can shoot at something in the dark, but no flashlight at the ready so that he can properly *see* what he's shooting at.
Are flashlights expensive and difficult to maintain in the USA, Bama? Much more expensive and difficult to maintain than guns, for instance? Would it be outrageous to require that anyone shooting at someone in the dark first be required to throw enough light on that person to see what he's shooting at - that is, some poor old bloke holding only a torch and not a gun - before shooting him?
I thought about this idea of flashlights a few days ago, but have been to busy to ask BamaD about it.
In America, obtaining a working flashlight costs a mere fraction of what a working firearm would cost. The same relationship as batteries for the flashlight when related to bullets for the firearm. The difference is that flashlights are more useful in any number of situations than firearms. Like helping to identify someone in the dark when outside...
This guy should go to trial for what he did. Its not self defense. He left the security of the house AFTER calling the police, to confront a possible intruder, out in the open, in the dark, with not clear route of retreat, nor the ability to establish threat from very innocent reason to being in that spot. He called out a number of warnings. Who heard the warnings? Was there any audio or filming of the event? Or are we to take the word of a murder that he is innocent?
In situations like that, I have *ALWAYS* carried a flashlight. And my flashlights are *ALWAYS* working and handy. When dealing with a possible intruder I make sure to keep an eye on them and their actions. The police are called and I 'sit tight' for the cavalry to arrive. In the two instances I did have to leave the house, I made sure to have backup in the form of roommates or friends, update the police, and a clear line of retreat to a fortified structure (i.e. the house). A sensible gun owner does not place themselves out in the open unless they are sure that 'open ground' is NOT an ambush waiting to happen.
This guy wanted to be an armed vigilante in the worst way. All he did was show how stupid the average gun owner is to America. That and giving the gun control crowd even more ammunition to sway Americans towards their views on firearm laws.
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