i somehow doubt that killing somebody for trying to steal something that is illegal, is legal...growing pot in front of his 9 year old, how libertarian of them
So you can smoke it, buy it from a street dealer, but you can't grow it.
“the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department investigated an attempted robbery in Puyallup at an alleged growing center foiled by a homeowner who shot two alleged burglars in front of his 9-year-old son”
They arrived and found two masked men home invaders shot dead. How does THAT marr the day? The homeowner saved himself and his kid.
i somehow doubt that killing somebody for trying to steal something that is illegal, is legal...Grow Centers are the new stash houses.
Oh yay! We can smoke marijuana legally!
My life will get so much better now!
Little by little, we are changing the
world for the better.
/sarc
Great news that the two homebreakers wound up dead. Only thing that would have made the story better is if the dopehead homeowner had ended up dead too.
He took two violent criminals off the street, and saved everyone else the possiblity of being their next victim, and/or the cost of trial and incarceration.
What's the problem?
You do not lose the basic inalienable right to defend home and family because of the genus of your potted plant.
Some more details.
The home was described as a “luxury” home, with a 6-car garage. The two dead perps were not known to the police, and they are trying to determine their ID by autopsy fingerprints.
The perps were dressed in black, with face bandannas, and though it was assumed they were looking for drugs and cash, that in the process they may have intended to kill the homeowner should not be discounted.
I hear they turned off the elevators. Folks just floated to the top.
I warned some co-workers who live up in Washington of this very thing happening. It reminded me of the late 80’s in Michigan when bandits were robbing crack houses for cash, including some people from the law enforcement community. Guess those people didn’t believe me. Drug dealers make a perfect target for armed robbery.
This is how much the “War on Drugs” has corrupted even the very concept of freedom in the USA - we’ve got a bunch of Freepers who are actually arguing that this man had no right to defend his home from masked robbers because he had some pot plants in his attic. You get that? Grow a plant in your attic, and suddenly even “conservatives” think that all of your God-given rights like self-defense (life, liberty, property?) go right out the window. But as long as we make those dope-smoking hippies pay, f*** the Constitution!
Very different story at this link: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/12/07/2393983/2-slain-during-apparent-robbery.html
“A Pierce County man with his 9-year-old son at his side Thursday shot and killed two men who apparently were trying to steal marijuana from what sheriff’s deputies called an illegal pot-growing operation inside the man’s garage.
The man and the boy were not hurt in what sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer described as a gunfight during which both sides fired multiple rounds.
“We could have had a dead 9-year-old and a dead homeowner,” Troyer said.
When deputies arrived, the boy’s backpack, multiple weapons and marijuana were strewn throughout the garage and on the driveway outside the house in the 5900 block of 132nd Street East, near Summit, Troyer said.
Detectives and evidence technicians were at the house most of Thursday and will be back today.
The 35-year-old man was taken in for questioning but not arrested. Troyer said the results of the investigation would be forwarded to prosecutors for a charging decision. Even if the man is not charged in the shooting, he likely will face prosecution for illegally growing marijuana, Troyer said.
“The amounts he’s growing far exceed what’s legal for medical marijuana,” he said.
Prosecutor Mark Lindquist would not speak specifically about the shooting as the investigation was unfolding, but said homeowners in Washington state have a right to defend themselves and their families, even if it’s from robbers intent on stealing their illegal drugs.”
Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/12/07/2393983/2-slain-during-apparent-robbery.html#storylink=cpy
Wow, legalized lung cancer and COPD, good deal! /s
Will DNCPMSNBC nightly news show the Daily Death Count in a little box in a corner of the screen?
Will we see "Two Marijuana Deaths" in a little box complete with a reefer pic on the screen tonight?
No?
No.....
I thought not.
I'm really good at anwering my own questions.
Leni