Posted on 08/07/2005 2:07:28 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel
NEW YORK-It was bound to happen sooner or later, and in what newspapers in Kentucky are calling a first, one American has killed another in a dispute over the Iraq war.
It happened at Floyd County flea market on Thursday, when two friends, who were firearms vendors there, drew guns after quarreling about the war. Douglas Moore, 65, of Martin, who supports the war, shot and killed Harold Wayne Smith, 56, of Manchester, who opposed it, according to investigators.
Moore was released without being charged after he convinced police he had acted in self-defense.
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Oh, there's more to the story than this. We'll probably never hear about it though.
Sounds fishy.
Sounds to me like the right prevails again.
"Moore was released without being charged after he convinced police he had acted in self-defense."
It looks like he shot a traitor who was getting violent because he did not get his way.
> Moore was released without being charged after he
> convinced police he had acted in self-defense.
So the peace-loving anti-war dude engaged in an armed
threat that provoked a need for someone to defend
themselves? Figures.
Bet the guy who opposed it was an anti gun freak and he fired without taking the safety off. These liberals are not rocket scientists when it comes to weapons use!
The story, as is, sounds trite and incomplete.
There has to be more to the story, such as - who was threatening who, and who drew first.
The article implies that it was cold blooded murder, while the survivor says it was self defense. The article has an air of cynicism in regards to the man's defense.
One less anti war fool to deal with, however, I don't think I could/would go as far as shooting someone, that's just over the line, a dope slap or two, or three would suffice!
Ironic that the anti-war person would be the first to draw a gun. Ironic, but sort of expected.
Moore was released without being charged after he convinced police he had acted in self-defense.
How about that? The "anti-war" guy drew first.
Sounds like he was slow on the draw in more than one way...
Proof that liberalism kills.
"Ironic that the anti-war person would be the first to draw a gun. Ironic, but sort of expected."
And for the anti-war to be killed is sort of expected too. Darwin's Law at work.
Article with much more detail here:
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/state/12317968.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
...This quickly escalated into an argument, then to a scuffle, and finally both men drew pistols outside a snack shed. The dead man was just a little slower...
...The daughter of the dead man said the two men were friends and had discussed Iraq before. She said her father "had different opinions than everybody. He felt it was wrong that all of these young people were losing their lives over what was going on. It was just a political disagreement, like a whole lot of people have."
"I'll stop the killing even if I have to kill you" bump...
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Nice article, and the MSM wonders why we don't trust them.
Well, since he was released because of self defense it sounds like once more a peace loving war hater tried to kill someone because the peace lover hated killing. Make sense? Only a lefty would have such reasoning.
Just a thought, let's not "actually" hurt the liberals, no matter how much you may really, really want to at the time.
Killing someone is just going way overboard.
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