Posted on 04/22/2007 11:24:04 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
What on EARTH are those drooling idiots at the Chronicle smoking?????
"Piedra pulled out his 9mm semiautomatic pistol and opened fire, killing Hicks, police said."
Bad guy is dead.
Looks like a good ending to me.
Hicks was on probation for a marijuana conviction, and was facing battery charges when he died, police and court records show.
Hey, I'll hazard a guess: BECAUSE HE CHOSE TO COMMIT ARMED ROBBERY.
How's THAT, to clear up those random, swirling forces of destiny?
IDIOT.
Come on...the poor guy had a nasty habit to fund that he struggled with...LOL...BOOM, solves that problem.
WTF? Someone should explain to "Ali" what enforcement means. When someone is murdered the police will try to find the killer and arrest him.. thus 'enforcing' a law against murder. No cop can protect you from the the crime happening in the first place. You MUST defend yourself.
“Holmgren said, “We’re not saying that we want citizens to go out there and arm themselves and take the law into their own hands. We want citizens to be good witnesses, to be good report-takers and to identify suspects.”
I have read in the past that SF has on of the LOWEST rates of SOLVED homicide cases in the nation, which makes the above statement even more moronic.
I would think that trouble felt distinctly disinvited by the outcome of this incident.
If it ended there, it would be a good ending. But to quote the g/f of the bad guy saying, oh, he beat, yah, yah, yah, but he was a good person.
That is where the ending gets insane.
I think criminals should start robbing newspaper offices. They should be easy targets.
They are not in the prevention business beyond telling people how to avoid crime.
They are also not crime stoppers unless the victim is fortunate enough to have a cop show up while a crime is being committed.
If you want to protect yourself and your family, you must hire someone or do it yourself. Laws that disarm law abiding citizens are biased against anyone who can't afford to buy personal protection.
Gee, a real loss to humankind:
“”One of the blows was so hard her head hit the wall and it put a hole in the wall,” Biletnikoff wrote. After she fell to the ground, Hicks kicked her in the stomach, she told police.”
Isn’t this what we always hear from the mothers of the killed “yutes”: “He was a good boy, he never hurt no-one.”
Let’s go further and say that self-defense is bad. The big problem with seeing this as a gun issue is that even if the store owner had just punched the thuglet and on the way down the thuglet had hit his head on the corner of the pizza mixer and died, the press and the police would be all over the pizzeria guy. You’re simply not supposed to fight back in today’s culture.
I was at a police event a couple of weeks ago (I have a family member on the force in a Western city) and the whole thing was about how respectful the officers were of the criminal class. That is, occasionally they had to “neutralize” one of them, but normally every effort had been made not to perturb “the gentleman” (aka, the thuglet). Of course, the mother of said thuglet immediately appears at the police station with the Reverend So-and-So in tow, as well as a cluster of press admirers, to scream about police brutality...
Things are crazy now.
What's a yute?
Bad guy dead, shot by armed citizen, other than that, I pay little attention to anything from liberal newspapers.
As a matter of fact, I have not read an actual newspaper or bought one in since 1996.
Liberals will always make comments in support of bad guys, many times coming to their aid when they are about to be executed. Nothing surprising here. That’s why I basically ignore them.
This story is infuriating on so many levels.
They'd already taken it there. If someone sticks a gun in your face he's threatening your life, not your property, and whining later that he was only after the latter is irrelevant and meaningless. This citizen was NOT "taking the law into his own hands," the law had been broken and its enforcers were nowhere in sight.
"Don't resist and you might be OK" is shatteringly stupid advice. In order to be a good witness one has to be alive.
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