Ok I do not cede this argument at all. I think amnesty is insane.
I would still like you to explain how a 5'2" 100 lb woman should defend herself from a 6'4" 240 lb rapist?
On to the next parts.
Someone spoke of suicides. Should we outlaw pills, ropes, cars, bridges, cliffs, trains, and the like as well? Would you feel safer?
Someone spoke of accidental deaths. Again, should we outlaw skateboards, motorcycles, (drugs are already illegal), cars, buildings, trees, bridges, cliffs, showering, and the like.
The only time you hear about guns in America in Austraila is when they make the news.
You have formed your opinion based on the news and reports you hear. Just like people do with motorcycles. They only hear the bad news, they only see the actions of the minority that reinforce the views they already hold.
The wonderful thing about this, is we live in different countries. Luckly for me I live where guns are not restricted.
I’ve been watching
this one without comment up till now, because I wanted to see what happened.
Story of the film so far: West Palm Beach (FL) resident has run-in with local Hispanic gang, who set out to terrorize him. One day, while out walking his dog, three of the scumbags try to run him over with their car, whereupon our Good Citizen empties his Glock at them, killing two.
[
waits politely for the storm of applause and bloodthirsty cheering to subside]
Regrettably, the local prosecutor decided to charge this Hero with murder or something, because he, in his wisdom, adjudged that fourteen shots fired was “excessive” (”
...argued that only Borden’s first five shots could be construed as self-defense” ). Yeah, I know: when scumbags are coming at you, you’re supposed to count your shots just in case some pantywaist prosecutor might decide that you Took Things Too Far. (For the record: had our Hero gone on to burn down the houses of the gangbanger scum with their families inside, that
might have been a tad excessive—but not too much so, as
his house was torched by the gang recently.)
Anyway, the jury of his peers told the prosecutor that he
and his case were full of ****, and promptly acquitted Our Hero of any wrongdoing. Okay, they ”
had the option of finding Borden guilty of lesser charges of second-degree murder or manslaughter but acquitted him outright.”
[
pauses once again to allow the huzzahs to die away]
Of course, it’s a Pyrrhic victory. Because the cops are essentially powerless to do anything about gangs, Our Hero has had to move to another place. Oh, and while he was in jail, not only did the gang burn down his house, but the cops destroyed his dogs because they couldn’t be bothered to feed them. Nice.
My suggestion to the voters of West Palm Beach: the next time there’s a bond issue up for vote which will appropriate money for the police,
vote it down. Tell them to get their money from the D.A.’s office.
Everybody failed society in this case: an innocent man had his life overturned first by a criminal gang and an inept police force, and then by a venal prosecutor who deserves a kick in the nads. In fact, the
only person who did the right thing by society was Our Hero, in that he killed two rat bastard gangbangers, and for that he deserves our thanks.
So this
goblin has had several run-ins with the same cop before, over the past few years. Cop pulls
goblin over for speeding; the argument gets hot, cop pepper-sprays scumbag, and then scumbag shoots cop dead and drives over the body a few times.
Aaaargh.
So why is this in the Righteous Shootings category?
Liko Kenney shot Cpl. Bruce McKay four times and ran over him after a traffic stop Friday evening, state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte said. Gregory Floyd, who was driving by with his son, grabbed McKay’s gun and shot Kenney when he refused to put his gun down, Ayotte said.
...and shot the bad guy dead, too.
[
pause to let cheering and clapping die down]
And because, according to Reader Allen R.,
this incident happened in the Live Free Or Die State:
Authorities said Floyd was justified in shooting Kenney.
I’ll say.
Seems like this guy decided to leave his hometown in Wisconsin to visit his cuz in Indianapolis. Once there, the two young men, as young men will occasionally, decided to embark on a little larceny. Maybe liquor was involved, maybe not; whatever, these two paragons of virtue decided to break into the apartment of a young lady. Maybe rape was in their thoughts, maybe just robbery; whatever, the Out-Of-Towner
goblin discovered that Indiana isn’t Wisconsin, in that said young lady was armed, and ended his budding career of interstate larceny with extreme prejudice.
[
pauses politely to let the storms of applause die down]
Because
all this happened in the Hoosier State, which has the right attitude towards this kind of thing, our young Annie Oakley will not be charged with anything. Reports that the responding police officer complimented her on her grouping are unconfirmed, but would not be surprising.
The only bad part of the story is that the Local
goblin got away without being shot as well, but he was arrested later and is being charged with felony murder. (Indiana, for my Overseas Readers, has the death penalty. We can but hope...)