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fucktoyprincess -> RE: South Africa -- Pistorius Trial -- Sensless Murder of Girlfriend (3/11/2014 8:13:20 AM)
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ORIGINAL: BamaD
Yes. I don't see any possible defense for Pistrious, he is either stupid beyond belief (negligent homicide)
or a cold blooded sob (murder)
He is neither. Pistorius is not a stupid man, and no one would describe him as such. Nothing in his bio suggests stupid.
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Oscar Pistorius was born to Henke and Sheila Pistorius on 22 November 1986 in Sandton, Johannesburg, in what was then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng Province) of South Africa.[1] He grew up in a Christian home,[10] and has an elder brother, Carl, and a younger sister, Aimée.[11][12] Pistorius credits his mother, who died at the age of 43 when Pistorius was 15 years old, as a major influence in his life.[13][14] He is a white South African with Italian ancestry from his mother's grandfather, an Italian emigrant to Kenya.[15][16]
Pistorius was born with fibular hemimelia (congenital absence of the fibula) in both legs. When he was 11 months old, his legs were amputated halfway between his knees and ankles.[3] He attended Constantia Kloof Primary School[17] and Pretoria Boys High School,[1][18] where he played rugby union in the school's third XV team.[19] He played water polo and tennis at provincial level between the ages of 11 and 13.[19] In addition, Pistorius took part in club Olympic wrestling,[19][20][21] and trained at Jannie Brooks's garage gym in Pretoria, South Africa.[22] After a serious rugby knee injury in June 2003, he was introduced to running in January 2004 while undergoing rehabilitation at the University of Pretoria's High Performance Centre[23] with coach Ampie Louw, and "never looked back".[19] His first racing blades were fitted by South African prosthetist Francois van der Watt. Because he was unable to find suitable running blades in Pretoria, van der Watt ordered some to be made by a local engineer. However, as these quickly broke, van der Watt referred Pistorius to American prosthetist and Paralympic sprinter Brian Frasure to be fitted for blades by Icelandic company Össur.[24][25]
Pistorius began studying for a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.)[11] in business management with sports science at the University of Pretoria in 2006.[19][20][26] In a June 2008 interview for his University's website, he joked: "I won't graduate soon. With all the training I have had to cut down on my subjects. Hopefully I'll finish by the time I'm 30!"[11] Asked by a journalist for his "sporting motto", he said: "You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have."[19]
In addition, a killing in the midst of a heated argument as it was does not meet the definition of killing in cold blood. Killing in cold blood implies with intention, but also without emotion.
This man is a very angry man. An angry man with a gun is dangerous. An angry man with a gun having an argument with his gf who he suspects of seeing someone else is obviously extremely dangerous. Cold-blooded? Hardly. He was very, very angry when he pulled that trigger. He was not thinking straight. And that's one of the reasons why it saddens me that there was a gun in the house. This is a man who started vomiting when the coroner described the fatal wounds in court. I don't think he ever would have stabbed her, or beaten her to a pulp. But a gun? A gun in his hand, and he is angry and she is behind a locked door. Soooooo very easy to just pull the trigger in the heat of the moment. So very easy…..[sm=2cents.gif]
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