Posted on 07/13/2007 10:49:21 AM PDT by mojito
Edited on 07/13/2007 10:54:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A grand feast of marinated steaks and jumbo shrimp was winding down, and a group of friends was sitting on the back patio of a Capitol Hill home, sipping red wine. Suddenly, a hooded man slid in through an open gate and put the barrel of a handgun to the head of a 14-year-old guest.
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I absolutely with every fiber in my body can’t believe that’s real. The most warming and friendly priest, if armed, would present a shotgun.
Unless you were hugging him around the neck, really really tight, until the police arrived.
Actually, it’s a good tactic to stall him after pressing the silent alarm and while waiting for the police to arrive. ;)
Rowan?
This is Scrappleface, right?
The issue here is that it feeds the infantile fantasies of the left that you can be nice to people, treat them with kindness and they will stop being evil homicidal maniacs.
In this case, they were lucky because the intruder sounds like an idiot.
Uh, was this really from The Onion? I mean, you can’t do parody that’s warped enough to have a story like this!
LOL...note to criminals: Do not try this in Texas.
I suspect this is an Allison Klein wet dream, nothing more.
If this really did happen, the family needs to be prosecuted for not turning this dangerous armed robber over to the cops.
I would have chugged a beer as the coroner removed his bullet riddled body from my dining room! Different strokes for different folks.
He's obviously unarmed against an armed intruder threatening his family. He did good.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Actually, I give them credit. Talking a burglar or someone who has a gun on you out of his intentions isn’t a bad idea.
I gather that the homeowner was out walking his dog at the time. It was not their house, and none of them had a gun. So, what should they do when someone was threatening to shoot their daughter?
Talk him out of it.
Evidently one thing led to another. Group hug? Very strange. As these people themselves seem to think. But it worked. And I suspect that the police have just as much to work with as they would have had if the guy had shot someone and fled. What, no fingerprints on the wine glass?
They complain that they should have held the man there. How? If someone had pulled a gun, they’d be complaining that people who are robbed should do whatever they are told and should never, never try to defend themselves. You can’t win.
The real issue here is whether the 14 year-old was served alcohol or not.
/sarc
I nearly puked when I read this in the paper this morning. This group-hugger held a gun to the head of a 14-year-old girl. Note to self: next time I go to a garden party on the Hill, I’m taking a gun.
I’m not gonna fault these people for trying any strategy at all.
In this kind of situation, any decision you make is going to be a crap shoot. I support 2nd amendment rights, but I am not personally a gun owner, largely because it is impossible to get a gun legally in my town. So had I been in this situation, I would not have had the option of pulling out a piece and blasting the creep.
It was fortunate that the “hug” strategy worked in this case — and it sounds like a very Christian (if dangerous) approach, even though I doubt these people are practicing Christians.
They were lucky, but this kind of thing has worked before. Remember the lady who was attacked and held captive in her home by a desperate killer? She quoted scripture to him, and actually got him to turn himself in.
So I wouldn’t be too quick to judge these people for how they handled it.
Of course, the story doesn’t mention whether they turned the guy in or called the police. They certainly did have an obligation to that once they were safe.
Great! Thanks to these morons there is a dangerous criminal still on the streets.
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