Algiers pastor who shot suspected copper thief outside church accepts plea offer

NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 11/10/15 | Ken Daley, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

[BBell]

They do. And being a former cop I don’t think he worried about thieves too much.

[Jack Hammer]

Scandalous.

They should give him a medal.

[Rurudyne]

Even worse: if you point out that by choosing to engage in sex (where conception may happen) you are in essence sending an invitation to that life to be a guest ... and it matters not one jot if you think the guest won’t show, the invitation is still sent none the less.

So abortion is then like killing someone you invited into your home, not some criminal intruder you never asked to come, but a guest.

This line of reasoning, like pointing out how abortion resembles an old fashioned lynching or show trial (where the judge and jury not only have a vested interest in the condemnation of the accused they actually pay the executioner too), seems beyond so many.

[Pontiac]

Oddly, some of the same people I’ve encountered who maintain that you should not be able to kill a criminal in the commission of a crime over mere property

I look at it this way; when someone steals your property they are stealing that part of your life that you spent acquiring that property and they are stealing that part of your life that you will spend replacing that property (if it is replicable)

So in a sense that thief was taking the man’s life and the good pastor was defending his own life.