Posted on 02/05/2018 8:05:20 AM PST by rktman
Self-defense is regarded as a right deriving from natural law. But that offers no justification to the parents of Michael Grace, Jr. of Charlotte, NC, who was shot to death while attempting to rob a Pizza Hut. CBS North Carolina reports:
It’s been a difficult week for parents Temia Hairston and Michael Grace Sr. Their son, Michael Grace Jr., was shot and killed during an attempted robbery early Sunday morning.
I sympathize. It is a terrible thing to lose a child. That is a wound that will not heal.
Police said Grace Jr. and two other people tried to rob a Pizza Hut in the 3200 block of Freedom Drive. During the incident, an employee fired his own handgun and killed Grace Jr.
Hairston said she learned of her son’s death on social media, and only got confirmation from police after contacting them first. The grieving mother said she has been left with dozens of questions about the situation that have thus far gone unanswered.
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Tough hop.
The good news would appear to be that Pizza Hut employees have finally managed to serve something hot and fast.
I don’t sympathize.
I’m glad he’s gone.
SHOT TO DEATH WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ROB........
Next, Please.
If employees aren't going to make themselves vulnerable and follow corporate policies, then the corporation is liable for misleading crooks into thinking they are easy targets.
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You should apologize to the people your son tried to rob, because that person now has to remember that they needed to take the life of a scumbag.
And satisfying
I’d tip for that!
boom yeow!
Cry me a river.
What the parents should be angry about is the fact that their son grew up to become an armed robber, not the fact that he was killed by someone in self-dense. Their outrage towards the man who shot their hoodlum son tells us that they weren't all that concerned by their son's choice of "career." That seems to be the all too typical ghetto attitude.
I used to agree with that.
No more.
Commit armed robbery, expect to get killed. Don't want your kid to get killed while committing a violent crime? Raise him not to commit violent crimes. My sympathy is entirely with the people he threatened, and particularly the individual who had to kill him.
"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time"
I have a few myself:
1. How many times has her child been arrested.
2. What caliber pistol did the employee use?
3. How many rounds did the employee squeeze off and how many hit the robber?
Was he turning his life around? But then if he was turning his life around, why the hell was he out robbing places? Was it really his bad news friends that led him down the wrong path? But in that case, why the hell is he hanging around with those dudes, and join them in robbing places?
This reminds me of a case a while back, in which a grieving mother was anguished, because her son, only 13, was shot and killed in a gang initiation robbery attempt. Same questions can be asked there, what the hell is your son doing with a gang in the streets, doing God knows what, in the first place???
Good shooting, Citizen. Civilization thanks you.
The employee should be given a bounty from the city or county - like about $25k.
Saved the area the costs of a trial, avoided costs of hospitalization, costs of housing this thug in prison, parole costs, costs of all the future crimes the thug would have committed. $25k is seems like a modest thank you given the NPV of all the costs he saved taxpayers.
Parenting fail.
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