Until it’s your kid or grandson who was walking by at the time.
Until it’s your relative who happened to walk across someone’s lawn.
Or made too much noise at night under someone’s window.
Well said.
I’d be willing to speculate that some of these Tagger Shooter folks would never *really* do it for real... outside the confines of a Conservative forum that is.
It’s quite a big step to draw down on somebody and shoot them dead. I’ve been told by somebody who has done it that it’s an experience that haunts for many years. On that basis Dirty Harry Callahan would be a very troubled soul indeed. Either that or he would be a sociopath that no police force would tolerate on staff.
“Nice Shot!” for shooting a kid for graffiti from 33 yards, probably in the back? We can evaluate that for what it’s worth.
No personal threat, so no plea of self defense. Not defending his own property. No apparent attempt at citizen’s arrest. No apparent attempt to hold the punk at gunpoint. Kid probably didn’t even know he was there. It’s God’s own mercy that the punk’s alive, both for his own sake and for the shooter’s, unfortunately.
Is that the sort of shooter that would make a good neighbor? If he were in my neighborhood I’d want the cops to take all his guns away, forever and then maybe lock him up for a while, for good measure. People like that make it really easy for Liberals to pass anti-gun measures.
The Law and Order movement need yahoos like that about as much as we need a hole in the head.