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Mr. White had no reason to go to....and I quote...”THE END OF HIS DRIVEWAY”...note these guys were NOT on his property....silly me, I think this is important.

Mr. White could have, silly me, locked his door and CALLED THE POLICE...the sort of thing civilized people do.

This is how the prosecutor argued the case. Mr. White used bad judgement. We all use bad judgement from time to time but when that bad judgement results in a death, we have to look into. Mr. White got found guilty of manslaughter, a fair enough verdict.

White says that Ciccaro lunged for his weapon...who knows if this is true? I’m going out on a limb here and suggesting that an unarmed drunk adolescent isn’t likely to be reaching out for loaded firearms and let’s please not forget that White’s son was also carrying a gun, a rifles....dag, you think this was all a bit much? The story about lunging for the gun was sure a convenient way to provide some logic to shooting an unarmed man on a public sidewalk.

To all you folk on this thread defending this guy, well I think the very fact that you’re smart enough to join Freerepublic this means you’re probably smart enough not to go running out to the end of your driveway shooting up a mob of drunk and unarmed adolescents who show up for some kind of crazy vendetta.

Now maybe you’ll would grab a gun for protection, this is understandable. But I’m thinking most of you would call the police while remaining inside of your home until they could arrive. THIS is what a sane logical person would have done and THIS was the prosecutor’s argument. Which a jury of the defendant’s peers agreed with and an appellite court upheld.

White did a damn dumb thing, probably reacting with anger, maybe even righteous anger you could argue.

But to debate that White was completely within his rights to run out there and shoot a damn dumb drunk unarmed teenager BEFORE even calling the police....well maybe it’s just me, but I think that’s a really dumb argument.

As for the kid who died....hey, he was a real dumbell. All of them were dumbbells, getting drunk and going off on some kind of silly mission to confront another kid who supposedly threaten rape. The bunch of idiot kids didn’t even have any proof of the story. But they were drinking and probably had some testerone flowing through their veins.

Out of that whole gang, there was ONE adult. And that adult grabbed a gun and ran out and shot an unarmed kid.

And folks smart enough to belong to Freerepublic are defending this sort of thing.

Finally, hey, I dunno...maybe pardoning White is the right thing to do. I don’t think he should spend any long amount of time in jail. I don’t believe for a minute he intended to kill anyone. But such as grabbing loaded guns and running out while filled with anger and self-righteousness does tend to lead to stuff like this. The prosecutor had a public need to punish this dangerous turn of events as it’s not how we want civilized people to behave.