No lib here buddy... just some common sense. Would you shoot the kid because he threw a rock at your car?
Actually, now that I’ve heard about the crossbow bolt thing,
HELL YES!
I think it was brilliant to do on the part of the motorist!
When I was a kid, I never, never, never--even on my baddest, angry-at-life day--would have thrown a rock at a car under any circumstances, and certainly not from an overpass where it could easily kill people.
What kind of useless psycho kid would do something like that? (And I don't care how abused a childhood he might be having. No justification for such behavior.)
I personally wouldn't. However, if I had kids or a wife, and someone threw a rock at my vehicle when I am driving, that person had better run very very fast because, to me, that person just attempted serious harm. I saw some guys some months back driving on the wrong side of the road for fun ending up hitting an oncoming car. If it was my car, and I had my family in it, that person is dead unless they can (very quickly) tell me why they were doing that (acceptable responses include rushing someone to hospital etc - silence or 'just for fun' are not acceptable). Same thing about rocks - if I catch the person I will have the presence of mind (for a few short seconds) to ask him why he was throwing rocks at my car. The answer better be good and quick. Oh, and I do not consider a 16 year old a kid.