[SheLion]

How about it "Pro Lifers?" This guy not only could have killed HER but he could have killed the BABY as well!

This hate toward the smokers has got to stop! 

courtesy of metesky.

[chance33_98]

I can see children's services getting involved now...

[chance33_98]

That said, I am going to take a smoke break.

[SheLion]

And 13 year old Shane was shot to death recently also over cigarettes:

[Tripleplay]

Now, if instead of smoking a cigarette, she had an abortion on the sidewalk, nothing would have happened.

[Cvengr]

...the man pulled out a handgun and aimed it toward the sky. He tried to fire a shot, but the gun jammed, Barnes said. That prompted the man -- ...-- to examine his weapon to figure out what went wrong. Suddenly, the gun went off, striking the woman in the left shoulder, Barnes said....

To heck with the guy who pulled the gun, I'd recommend the woman get to a church, get right with God, and make sure His plan doesn't have something else as devestating in store for her. Next thing you know, when she crosses the street, some guy approaching an intersection will press on the brakes and they won't work. The as he coasts the accelerator will actuate instead.

By any chance, did she name the little tyke, 'Damien'?

[SheLion]

Boy, 13, dies in beating on street

21 Sept 2002

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 13-year-old New Smyrna Beach boy was beaten to death Friday by a 15-year-old boy who thought the victim had given cigarettes to the older boy's little brother, authorities said.

(The hate against smokers and smoking has got to stop!)

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[LowOiL]

This guy had problems before this it looks like. Kinda like the fellow in town around here that walks around just shooting birds (middle finger type) to people driving by. There is just some people that are way off (what was he doing with a gun anyway).

[JZoback]

I am almost surprised child care services didn't have "her" arrested for endangering a child.

Oh' I forgot, it's not a child yet.............just a fetus.

Never mind.

I do agree with you about these anti-smoking Nazi's. Most are extremely intolerant and fascist in their thinking...............and they call themselves liberals.

[Tired of Taxes]

It may be disgusting for a pregnant woman to smoke, but this guy took matters a bit too far. Obviously, he was the neighborhood nutcase. He was probably a ticking bomb ready to blow up about anything, and she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[ladyinred]

They have successfully demonized smokers to the point that this may be the result. I should think this would classify as a "hate crime" but don't hold your breath! (pun intended) The "pro choicers" have a dilemma here don't they?

[HairOfTheDog]

I can defend exactly NONE of the people in this story! This time they are all wrong!

[sweetliberty]

Well, obviously it was the cigarettes that caused the problem. The eevil cigarettes must be banned! < /sarcam >

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The hate will stop once the price of cigarettes stabilizes at a "desirable level." Already the early "scientific studies" are indicating that smoking stops or retards the progress of neurological diseases. The outcome being "cigarettes are desirable if used in moderation." What we are really seeing are the giant property seizures attendant upon a dying Republic. The historical analogy being Sulla and his times. All means of seizing property will increase in frequency and intensity as desperate office holders seek ever increasing amounts of cash with which to purchase followers.

[semaj]

Was this shooting deliberate or an accident. Was the strange man intent on harming the women? The way the article is written leaves many questions. Was the anger the man displayed towards the women uunjustified when you take into consideration the fact the smoking while pregnant contributes to birth defects, low birth rate, down syndrome, etc... Who will pick up the tab when this women delivers an unhealthy baby because she exercised her right to smoke, therby poisoning and injuring her unborn baby? I have no problems with people smoking if that's what they want to do, but when it hurts somebody else, there has to be a trade off. The guy obviously was a nut job. It's one thing to berate someone and qujite another to pull out a handgun and start busting caps.

[Publius6961]

Most people cringe at the sight of a pregnant woman smoking. Some people feel strongly enough to say something in protest. But one local man took matters into his own hands early Friday when, according to police, he shot an expectant mother who refused to put out her cigarette.

This illustrates perfectly and as clearly as needed the attitude of the anti-smoking Nazis. What could be clearer?
The societal equivalent of "we had to destroy the village in order to save it".

Controlling sicko neurotics have been given license to rail and apparently now kill in the name of anything "PC".
Is anyone surprised?

When must we do something about it?

[ward_of_the_state]

Hmmmm....smoking while pregnant or shooting the mother? Which less harmful to the fetus? The life of this poor infant is off to a great start. </sarcasm off>

[rdb3]

My mother smoked during all six of her pregnancies. My two brothers and three sisters are all in their 40s now, except the youngest sister who is 38. They are fine. No history of health problems at all. I'm bringing up the rear at 30. No health problems for me yet, either.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that smoking isn't the healthiest choice one can make, but I find social engineering more despicable than cigarette smoke. Then again, cigarette smoke doesn't bother me.

[wardaddy]

Anyone comes around my 8 months preggers wife having a rare smoke when she's stressed to the bone and starts preaching about the evils of tobacco and I guess I'll have to shoot him/her on the spot premptively. I look forward to it...lol

[F.J. Mitchell]

The guy was probably pro-choice on killing babies-anti-choice on smoking-anti-second amendment except for the mentally ill and was outraged more than anything else, that this woman had chosen to deliver a live, healthy baby, instead of body parts for ghoulish medical experiments. So while smoking, (out of his ears) he pulled out the gun he believed only his ilk should be allowed to possess, and as usual with his ilk knew not diddly about handling a weapon, and in an effort to intimidate the lady, tried to shoot a hole in the ozone, only to miss the whole sky and hit the mother to be instead.

THe guy's sentence should be a year in a smoke filled room, without windows or a ventilation system.

[waterstraat]

Lets get back to the basics.

This would not have happened if it was still illegal for women to smoke cigarettes.

Prior to the 1920's when every state in America prohibited women from smoking, not one woman was ever shot for smoking. No babies were ever harmed, and no man was running from the police. Allowing women to smoke has caused a myriad of problems, both healthwise, and otherwise.