Whenever there is a murder or serious crime, civic leaders and the police tell us the way to reduce it is to get involved.
However, this editorial wants the citizens of Baltimore to assume the role of helpless victims, that it wants them to be fearful, to run, cower and hide, while they wait for the police, which you have already written about being overburdened as it is, to hopefully show up in time and do "something."
I celebrate law abiding citizens killing intruders. Every time.
Bad guy dead.
Message sent.
I can’t think of anything wrong here.
In other words, it wants the citizens to be slaves, not free people.
Of course, for these folks, that “handled differently” won’t include a handgun.
Bad guy breaks into home... bad guy winds up dead at hands of the person he tried to rob/harm. That’s worth celebrating in my book.
Live like a thug, die like a thug.
The author seems to not understand what JUSTIFIED means...
The criminal could have stayed home and not gone out to rob a house.
I didn’t read it that way. I agree to a point, that we can accept solemnly accept that sometimes bad guys need to be killed, without glorifying the deed. In my adult life, I’ve come to support the death penalty, but I don’t find any joy in an execution. If anything, I feel the deepest sympathy for those who had to carry it out.
But even burglars don't deserve to be killed with a razor-sharp sword.
He doesn't deserve any sympathy. Whatever works. If the guy broke into my house and came at me, he'd be met with a Sig P220.
So for that reason, we should all cower in our houses, abdicating the right to self-defense to the police?
Tell you what Baltimore Sun, you do that and I'll promise not to write anything critical of you making that choice.
Cowards.
This worked really well, actually.
If the robber were slain with a gun, you’ve got all kinds of potential problems: It would have made a loud noise, it might leave pieces all over the place, and the projectile might have traveled and made unintended trouble.
With a sword, it’s quiet, quick, and nothing flying around.
Concealed sword permits for everyone.
There’s one easy way for people to avoid this fate.
Don’t break into other peoples’ houses and try to steal their stuff.
I find cheering much too mild a response to the killing of vermin.
The patriot needs to be hoist on the shouders of the community and paraded through town with much revelry...then the patriot needs to awarded prizes medals and a brand new handgun of their own choosing, so as to make their heroics, in the future, less dangerous to themselves.
LIBERAL TRANSMOGRIFIER: "It's only worth celebrating if the victim, not the criminal, was killed. Today is a day of bereavement, mourning the honest criminal who was only trying to feed his three crack-whore girlfriends, his 12 children, and his rather vicious drug habit."
Yea !!! Right !!! rehabilitation is the answer ,,, I’ll bet this perp had a real nice resume of past criminal accomplishments . No more . . .
Is it a cause for cheers?
Yes. Absolutely, unequivically, yes.
The message needs to be said, nay shouted, loud and clear. “if you are a POS loser who would rather steal from the industrious than earn for yourself, we have no use for you. If you are a POS then you are worthless to us. If we catch you stealing that which we have labored to earn, expect no regard. If you are so arrogant as to threaten us, expect no quarter and no mercy. If you are THAT much of a POS, not only will we feel justified doing whatever is necessary to ptotect ourselves from you, we will do it with relish. For in protecting ourselves we are protecting every single person you might prey upon in the future”
Its only too bad the method of dispatch couldn’t have been even more brutal. Some messages have no room for subtlety.
Yes, they do.
If crooks don’t want to die they can simply cease and desist from all criminal activity. It is a choice.
No one knows when someone breaks into their house whether they are armed or not. A successful robbery often invites a return engagement. Who knows whether it may escalate next time? Who knows if the next time you wake up to find the creep with a weapon hovering over your bed?
The Sun is correct that the homeowner did nothing to deserve carrying this possible feeling of guilt around with him for a long time. All the doing was on the dead man’s part. Any feelings of guilt suffered is the dead guy’s fault.
I'll bet they support charges against the breitbart filmakers.I'll bet they support ACORN.