[FairOpinion]

"The boy was silly to be out ringing door bells at his age but he didn't deserve to die for it."

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As an earlier poster aptly pointed out: "jay walkers don't deserve to die for it, but sometimes they do".

The point is the "kid" (I am actually getting tired of that excuse -- a 16 year old should know better and Malvo was a a 17 year old "kid", when he committed his deliberate sniping murders) could have lived a long happy life, if he didn't go knocking on the door in the middle of the night. And if he just "knocked and ran", he would have been long gone, by the time the homeowner opened the door. He engaged in something that put his own life at risk, and he lost. He made a wrong choice. Lot of people die for making the wrong choice at the wrong time. It's too bad, but it's a fact of life.

[longtermmemmory]

FL requires that pedestrians use marked and signaled intersections where available. Those hit in the middle of a block when that type of intersection intersection is available are generally SOL.

[beaversmom]

I understand your point but I guess I'm not so c'est la vie about the boy's life looking at the facts as presented in the article (which I've already acknowledged may not be complete or accurate). I'm sure the guy being a gun owner had his door locked so he had a couple of seconds/minutes to think about his course of action. The article may not be accurate and maybe it will come out the boy was a punk with a history of harrassing this guy, but I don't think it's going to come out that he was actually in the house. The way I'm looking at it right now, the homeowner had a few seconds to think. My dad is a gun owner and I've had to make a couple late night trips knocking at his door. He would never shoot first and ask questions later even if it was someone he didn't recognize that was knocking at his door late.