If you collected all 4,400-odd newspapers of the US for a week...you’d likely find at least a hundred folks killed who were in some drunken or doped-up situation. Some killed by cops....some killed by neighbors....some killed by strangers....and some killed by relatives. Nothing new.
About three years ago in DC, we had some landscaper mowing a yard and left his rake just barely on the street. Some taxi driven by a Latino guy comes by....thinks the rake just fell off a truck...stops and attempts to pick up the rake. Landscaper starts yelling and coming over. Latino taxi guy freaks out....pulls a pistol....fires. Dead landscaper. Taxi guy is charged with 2nd degree murder. All over a stupid rake in the street, and some fear of what the landscaper might have done to him. That’s our society today....doing stupid stuff with implications.
“About three years ago in DC, we had some landscaper mowing a yard and left his rake just barely on the street. Some taxi driven by a Latino guy comes by....thinks the rake just fell off a truck...stops and attempts to pick up the rake. Landscaper starts yelling and coming over. Latino taxi guy freaks out....pulls a pistol....fires. Dead landscaper. Taxi guy is charged with 2nd degree murder. All over a stupid rake in the street, and some fear of what the landscaper might have done to him. That’s our society today....doing stupid stuff with implications.”
You know what they say. “an armed society is a polite society.”
I seriously doubt, if in D.C. that the landscaper thought the taxi driver would be armed. So rather than say simply “excuse me that is my rake” he freaked out and attacked the driver. The guy wasn’t killed because of a rake. He was killed because he was being Mr. Macho and went postal on the driver.
How many times have you “freaked out” over some little thing like that? I would say, probably none. This situation is exactly why I carry and exactly what self defense is about. You shouldn’t be fearful for life or limb in everyday situations. Someone attacks me, they are going to get shot.
Here’s an idea. How about acting like a civilized human being?