Posted on 01/05/2009 11:15:10 AM PST by CHICAGOFARMER
Join the police force?
Bump
A Navy veteran from the 1950s.
~~~~ Man was sorry he killed two thugs with tec 9. ~~~~
Yes, he was sorry that they put him in a position to have to kill them. He didn’t want to kill anyone (what decent person would?), but he said he would do it again under those circumstances (who wouldn’t?), because he knew that he and his wife would be dead if he didn’t.
He was blessed things turned out as they did. But, as he said, his life will never be the same because of the incident.
Wow... quite an interview. I got this too, in the FrontSite e-newsletter.
Something that many of us don’t usually consider: the aftermath of even the most righteous of self-defense events is still often a very serious ordeal. In reading Ayoob on the topic he has some very enlightening points:
Your family and friends will see you differently, and many of these relationships will become awkward at least for a while. You’re a killer now. Righteous, no doubt, and even having saved their very lives right in front of them— but make no mistake— they saw you kill. Brutally take a life. The ugliest of things. That’s going to have a profound effect on them and on their view of you and your view of yourself. Not that you wouldn’t do it again, or that they aren’t grateful for your all still being alive to tell the tale, but it does change things.
It doesn’t mean that you don’t pull the trigger when the time comes. It’s just something to think about in case it ever happens to you or someone you know. IMHO.
WLKY is out of Louisville Kentucky, so it would seem likely.
By the way. Billy Jackson is 70 years old.
I believe this happened in Louisville Kentucky. In Chicago the Landlord would have been disarmed and he and his wife would be dead and the masked banditos would be enjoying their money.
BTW, where are the folks who will be saying he should have stopped shooting after the perp with the gun was down? (That one got back up and headed out the door, but he didn't get too far before blood loss put him down permanently.) Also that shooting the one with no visible weapon, perhaps no weapon at all will get him thrown in jail for murder or manslaughter or something?
Well like I said, this was in Kentucky, not Chicago, New York or LA.
And the thugs were 19.
Turner's great Aunt, probably near the same age as Jackson, even said:
It's like, no, that's not Daz," she said. "I don't know if he was forced into doing it, but that is not my nephew."
The "Good Boy" in question, "Turner was once a star point guard for Valley High School who was working toward getting his GED while preparing to be a first-time father this summer."
Well cry me a river, the bastard was committing armed robbery, even though he wasn't the one with the TEC. (Putting together the fact that he was the one who died in the hospital, and Jackson saying that the one with the gun died on the scene.)
Good stuff to remember.
Thanks.
BTTT
Solid piece of work.
I watched it too.
Sounds like a decent man who did what he had to do. Unfortunate.
Also, he said after armed thug aimed up, he shot him...and the guy kinda froze...he must have hit a nerve cluster or something that sent the guy into instant shock. Good thing too...the thug probably would have lowered his tec-9(converted to auto?) and unloaded the mag.
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