Armed Citizen Opens Fire On Home Depot Shoplifter

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(10-08-2015, 10:20 AM)Blutarsky Wrote:  
I see how you took advantage of JustWin's "law abiding citizens"  and twisted it to fit your argument.

She was not law abiding in this case only because she was stupid and didn't know the law, not that she intended to do something wrong or commit a crime.
Yes, ignorance of the law is no excuse, but that doesn't change anything.

This is the most amazing thing of the whole situation.  We live in what is supposed to be a civilized, Christian country and yet people don't know if it is acceptable to purposefully kill someone who stole something from a store.  When it comes to the alarming stories about guns I'm less concerned with the mass shootings and more concerned with people who self-righteously shoot to kill at the drop of a hat.  

People getting shot for shoplifting, walking through people's yards, walking through their own yards but being shot by new neighbors who think they are trespassing, and so on and so forth.  A guy in Wisconsin opened fire within city limits with a high-powered rifle because there was a dog in his yard, people marching around wal mart with rifles strapped to their backs in mock defiance, and so on and so forth.

Between the NRA, politicians, and Hollywood's glamorization of guns going all the way back to the James Bond movies we have a culture of misinformation and what seems to be absolute zeal to shoot people in a "justified" manner.  It just seems like some people go out of their way to find an excuse to "defend themselves" and shoot someone.  

And guns just make it all so easy.

Someone shoots and kills a dog in his yard?  Meh, so what.
Someone grabs a hammer and smashes the dogs skull in until it is dead because it was in his yard?  Holy crap, this guy is nuts and went overboard!

Someone fatally shoots a shoplifter?  Meh, he shouldn't have been stealing.
Someone chases down a shoplifter and stabs him 47 times until he dies from his wounds?  Holy crap, I feel safer with the shoplifter!


Anyways, generic rant over. I thought the middle east was crazy for cutting people's hands off for stealing, but now we can punish stealing with instant death via firearm? Nice.