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Posted on 04/14/2005 1:05:56 PM PDT by holymoly
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Good news from Florida.
Nice shot, Granny.
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Ahem ...
" ... That's when the store clerk, Kingsly Brown, shot Wendal, police said ... "
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I'd pay extra for a purse if I could detonate it using a remote control device. That would show them little purse snatchin' rats a thing or two!
"Finally!
Good news from Florida."
Pathetic but true.
Yeah - even making allowances for the situation, she doesn't sound like the cuddliest granny on the block...
I don't consider myself a liberal jerk. But I think shooting a kid over a purse, is pushing it.
I certainly wouldn't want to send a kid who's most likely unprepared to meet his Maker, knowing that will condemn him to Hell for all time, over the contents of a purse.
All kinds of questions are raised. Did the store have a security camera. Could the kid not have been tracked down and arrested without shooting him? Was there sufficient warning to stop before potentially lethal force was applied. etc.
There is a right way and a wrong way to use force to bring criminals to justice. This might not have been the right way.
We're on the same page.
Or that he was just beginning to get his life turned around
My wife has a cousin who amongst his many other youthful indescretions, enjoyed taking his Mama's old trashed purses and stuffing them with a King snake, then leaving it someplace to be 'lifted'.
He and some friends left one on the curb outside a bar at about 1 AM once. They watched from half a block away as a big old caddie slowed way down and pulled over to the curb. A door cracked open, a hand came out and snatched the purse into the car.
That caddie went about another half block when all four doors flew open and people came flying out.
The caddie continued on down the blvd for a few more blocks driverless, unless you count the snake.
A teenage thug mugging an elderly woman for her purse can very easily cause her to fall and sustain a broken hip or head injury that will end her independent life, and lead to her premature death. I'd much rather the kid get shot. The more of these kids that get shot doing this stuff, the fewer of their frineds will decide it's a good thing to try.
You never know what people may have in their purses. I'm all for shooting any purse snatcher!
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