That’s a heck of a warning.
She called the tune, she paid the piper.
I dont believe in firing warning shots. If you have cause to shoot then shoot center mass.
Sad, but well-publicized ‘events’ like this will REALLY make teens think hard about robbing people for kicks. I grew up in blue state and we never worried about some guy coming out with a gun (no, I didn’t steal from residences or cars, but most of my friends did).
It’s one thing to be chased by an angry homeowner, or a cop (who is usually trained well enough not to shoot) - but I suspect that most people will think harder if that homeowner has a gun.
This isn’t MA or CA, this is Alabama. It’s no secret that many, many, people own guns (probably a majority of whites, maybe a majority of blacks too). It is up to the PARENTS to explain that to their little brats. In this case, it looks like they came up short - but now parents can print out and post this article.
Three charming Cro-mags. Well, this being Alabama, they will likely have many years to ponder the error of their ways, unlike the girl, who just had some chlorine added to her gene pool.
Does the girl not share responsibility? She chose to date a criminal and be friends with criminals. She chose to go rob the house. What's her criminal history? If it weren't for her own actions, she would still be alive.
I’m going to buck the trend and say that the guy who fired the second shot was an idiot - one of the big four rules is to never fire a shot if you don’t know where the bullet is going to go. That he shot a perp and not an innocent (possibly hundreds of yards away) is pure luck.
This guy should be thanking G-d for sparing him from the consequences of his folly.
Miss Moody was with her 3 friends who were robbing fishing camps on a remote island during the wee hours. Miss Moody hid in the bushes while the boys robbed the cabins. One of the cabins was occupied and the occupants fired a warning shot out the door which hit Miss Moody in the head and killed her - he didn’t know she was there. This was a tragic occurrence but the bottom line is that if she were home in bed instead of where she was it wouldn’t have happened. Nobody with any sense faults the shooter, who was protecting himself at a remote location (it would take cops at least an hour to get there by boat) during a crime in progress, but it turned out he was a felon who shouldn’t have had a gun. Last I heard they were going to prosecute the 3 boys she was with for her murder, which makes no real sense either. She didn’t deserve what happened, and there is much sympathy for her family, but it was her choice to be there - don’t see how the law should compensate her for her poor choices.