Duly noted. It will be handled differently next time.
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’ll bet real money that no one on the Baltimore Sun editorial board actually lives in “Charm City”. I am sure they all live out in the safe suburbs.
Where do they get this namby-pamby crap anyways? Who says Mr. Pontolillo will have any remorse? I certainly wouldn't. The burglar wasn't some rebellious teenage kid running with a bad crowd. He was a 49 year-old career criminal who had just been released from prison the previous Saturday.
I just for the life of me can't see how I'd feel any pangs of guilt in removing him from the street. If anything, I'd feel relieved that the streets are just a little bit safer now (and I'd probably feel an important need to watch my back for a while).
"Those without swords can still die upon them."
Cheers!
The law should be the intruder should have his head removed and displayed at the injured estate on a pike for 5 days hense...
Well, they do tend to work better than a dull one.
The author is a classic case of a sanctimonious liberal who hasn't met the real world yet. "All he was after was your property" is absolute garbage. If he's there the only intelligent assumption is that he's after your life because so many of them really are. Shall we recall the Cheshire, CN home invasion case? (Warning - disturbing reading)
The proper response to a home invasion is immediate and lethal. Personally I'd be in favor of hanging "career" criminals as well. And I consider myself a moderate on the topic.
Duly noted. It will be handled differently next time.
Sweet!!!
It’s funny how the reporter tells us what the narrative is. I bet if the student were allowed to speak, he would share some wisdom with us.
“It’s just a flesh wound, I’ll fight you with one hand”
I think the event that brought the two men together in that dark garage had a great ending: A good man triumphed over an evil man; one who had been committing evil and violence most of his life. The "sword" aspect is just icing on the cake!
Live by it, die by it. . .
Well, we'll have to agree to disagree.
The writer of this editorial lives in a “Bambi” World.
He should have been born 5 centuries ago when they sliced and diced with swords
Bullfrog
Some while back in Chicago a similar situation took place. A machinist was out in the shop in his garage when three or so punks caused a disturbance outside. He went outside and told them to get lost, when one pulled a gun on him. He sliced the assailant up with a very nice Roman short sword that he made himself. He demonstrated what he did for a TV news spot, and nobody that I know of did anything but pat him on the back. Cops, reporters, all positive toward private swordsmanship.
>No cause for cheers. Ok, how about this...
Gimme an S!
Gimme a W!
Gimme an O!
GImme an R!
Gimme a D!
What does that spell? SWORD!!!
There WERE better alternatives: (1) 12 gauge, .45, 9mm, and so on; or (2), offer the intruder a free cab ride to the far richer and easier pickings at the homes of violence abjuring members of the Baltimore Sun editorial board.
Well if it wasn’t for the BATFE he coulda used a claymore...”Front Towards Enemy”!
Needs a barf alert.
Lived in Baltimore. Doubt if author even works at the Baltimore Sun building-too risky, especially at night. Baltimore, a murder a day keeps reporters and everyone else away. No wonder Bill and Melinda gates took their charity money elsewhere rather than waste it in a place like Charm City.
One might argue that "it" above refers only to the government. Well, this country is a Constitutional Republic and both States and local jurisdictions have authorized citizens to act their behalf, exercizing lethal force, if need be, in defense of themselves or innnocent third parties.
To clarify further, the people, the rightful sovereigns in this country, have retained their right of self-defense in the face of criminal depradation. We '"rulers" are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil.' (Romans 13:3)
I will, sadly, agree with the BSun.
It is a shame that the People’s Republic of Maryland ignores the Second Amendment and infringes on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
It is a shame that as a result, this decent citizen only had a sword available to do the job that the state should have done for him in one of the criminal’s many previous arrests, instead of having a proper firearm to defend himself from a criminal who should not have been free.
Fortunately, the citizen in question seems to have taken advice from a book that the editors of the BSun have never heard of: “And the one who has no sword must go out and buy one.”
Perhaps this be labled as the “Conan the Barbarian” defense :)
Does the Hopkins student get two ears and a tail?