This here wind-up model is all 'bang-bang' and no 'you're-dead'.
Posted on 01/20/2014 7:32:45 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Two years after someone fired 18 bullets into his body, we finally know the reason Gregory McFadden died such a brutal death at the age of 27 in West Baltimore. He turned his back on a guy.
It was disrespect, a malady that inflames the male ego and makes young men do terrible things. Disrespect has been around for centuries, of course, but its consequences have been particularly lethal in the age of the high-powered handgun. Killing someone because he disrespected you is a phenomenon that no amount of police power or community vigilance can seem to stop.
Some interventions — Safe Streets in the Leon Faruq days — have been effective when beefs between young men became known. But what do you do to stop a killing like McFadden's?
All of the following facts come from testimony in a murder trial last week in Baltimore Circuit Court. The shooting occurred on Tuesday night, Nov. 15, 2011, in Harlem Park.
McFadden was part of a group of young men on the street at 11 p.m. in the 700 block of N. Carrollton Ave., near a beautiful old stone church.
Maybe it's not a good idea to be on Carrollton Avenue at that hour, but until we declare martial law, a citizen is allowed to visit with friends on the sidewalk. That's what McFadden was doing.
The problem developed when a couple of guys approached him on the sidewalk.
McFadden had flirted with the girlfriend a couple of weeks earlier, and now Baker wanted to have a word with him about that on Carrollton Avenue.
McFadden declined the opportunity for conversation and turned his back.
Baker took offense. So did Moore.
They felt they had been disrespected.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
This culture believes they are deserving of respect because they can choose life or death. So they are due the respect of a ruler.Those they prey upon can choose to do the same thing.
The leftist Presstitutes are always trying to use scare tactic words about guns.
I suspect that if someone got shot 18 times with a "low powered" handgun (whatever that is in this Prestitute's mind), they would still be dead.
Beating them over the head 18 times with an empty "low powered" handgun would also probably have the same end result.
475 Linebaugh or S&W 500 Magnum. The Magnum Research BFR in 45-70 is satisfactory too. Honorable mention to S&W 460 Magnum. The rest are CCW items.
Yep. It is a savage thing.
This here wind-up model is all 'bang-bang' and no 'you're-dead'.
On this one, Sowell is wrong.
I think he's 100% right.
Your opinion, you’re welcome to it.
“What about the white ex-cop who shot a white veteran in a movie theater last week over a disagreement because the guy was texting his babysitter?”
He shot the guy because the guy threw a box of popcorn at him (and I in NO WAY see that as a legitimate reason for him to shoot the guy). But I don’t see that as the popcorn guy “disrespecting” him.
Well, I’m a Southerner and fights usually started because someone pissed someone off, NOT because that someone showed “disrespect.” Hell, I didn’t even hear the term “dissing” until I was in my forties.
I think that's how the shooter saw it.
Insult by any other name is insult.
“I think that’s how the shooter saw it.”
And that’s why he is in jail and will in all probability be convicted.
I agree.
Cannot imagine the shock and grief of the victim’s family.
YOU DISSED ME!
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Only took them 4 sentences to blame it on the Evil Gun.
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Yep!
Of course, shooting people for such imagined offenses has nothing to do with an upbringing that includes no inculcation of moral principles.
Institutionalized narcissism.
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Spot on!
...children belong in a loving family with a father and mother who instill discipline, respect of the proper kind and morality grounded in traditional Judaeo-Christian values.
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Needs repeating — over and over.
The author, Dan Rodricks, has promoted every liberal policy over the course of his journalistic career and now he finds himself perplexed at the effects of those policies?
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Good point.
Sheesh! I remember that clown from back 25 years ago when I used to read “The Sun”.
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