Posted on 01/15/2005 8:54:08 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
LOL! Is that from "The In-Laws"?
Too many sets of stairs (3 stories), to keep track of who was on which floor.
I thought that at some point they were on the same floor, before the bad guy began decending the stairs.
Still not many places in house where you're more than 15 yards apart.
You ought to be able to get inside the 9 ring!
"Police seized $59.25, three lighters, a set of keys, a box of Newport cigarettes, a tape cassette, a miniature toy gun, steel wool and a glass tube from the suspect."
All the signs of a crack/meth head. When will our legal system stop making petty perps the victims and the real home invaded victims the perps? I am sick of our society coddling drug peddlers and abusers. They are literally being trained that bad behavior gets rewarded and good behavior is passed over or shameful. Sound familiar? As in how gang banger communities ostricize(sp?), ridicule and shun, attempting to drag good, civil, positive and productive students and athletes back down to the gutter level.
It's the criminal's fault in Texas .. so far it still is anyway.
If they CRIMINAL is in your home you can blow his fool head off! If he falls outside your door, just make sure his head is pointing towards the door....or just pull him back in.
The same thought crossed my mind. He wasn't carrying outside the home. Something's not right with this reporting, or the victim is suddenly the perp because it's Massa-2-sh_ts, home of the Swimmer.
IIRC, MA passed a law a few years ago specifically legislating that occupants have a right to "stand their ground" in a home invasion. (Retreat is no longer required...)
BTW, here in God's Country (Texas) anyone who trespasses on your property (not just entering your house) is in deep (apply your own term here...)
MA Cop: Let's see your license to breath.
Slave: What? I have a right to breath!
MA Cop: You need a license to breath or you're in violation.
Slave: What?!! I have a right to breath!!!
MA Cop: You have to have a license to exercise your rights.
Exercising rights is a privilege, everybody knows that! Breathing without a license is illegal. Do you have a valid license or not??!!
License. Permission to do that which would otherwise be illegal.
The prosecution can bring up these charges, but it's probably a waste of time. I really don't think they could get 12 jurors to unanimously agree he is guilty on this one.
slid down the railing, and took possession of the gun."
Sheesh--who is this guy? Mannix?
LOL, the sliding down the rail part caught my eye too. I'm young and agile but sliding down a rail to meet a home intruder wouldn't even enter into my split second response.
Just pointing a gun and squeezing the trigger, repeatedly.
A "hint" as to the ethnicity of the robbers?
Not really. I'm white and I used to smoke them...lotsa white folks I know have. But you may be right...kind of unnecssary detail, otherwise.
Unless things have changed dramatically since I escaped my 20-year "exile" in Massachusetts, the MA firearns license is a "license to carry fireqarms". (I'm looking at mine...)
AFAIK, individual citizens of the Commonwealth (not their firearms) are licensed in MA. IMO, if Roisten was, indeed, in his own home, (no MA LTCF required there) the cops are in a heap of trouble if they don't drop charges.
"firearms" (twice...)
Yeah, there is a lot of squirrelly stuff with this story. It really creates more questions than it answers. There seems to be a lot we don't know.
No longer! (Please, it's awful enough here without misinformation! :-) )
That was the law for a brief period years ago. Amazingly enough, the "Castle Law" was enacted during PeeWee Dukakis' reign!
If I recall correctly, Mass.Ch 131 General Laws, "Limitations on the Use of Deadly force":
"It shall be a defense that the shooter was in his own home..."
Any bets he'll do more time than the guy he shot?
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