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To: Texas Mom

Definately a bit extreme, but I have to wonder if the guy deserves life in prison. He was being goaded, heavily. And 7 teenagers throwing eggs at a moving car is not just your average couple of kids egging a garage door in the middle of the night. 7 teens is pretty much a mob.

I think the guy is going to have to get some time for overreacting but it's hard for me to give him murder 1.

This entire situation never should have happened. 7 teens should never have been out at 11pm throwing eggs at moving cars, and neither should the driver have gotten so angry that he opened fire on the kids.

Ick. What a mess.


458 posted on 07/26/2005 12:46:36 AM PDT by Advil
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To: Advil
I think the guy is going to have to get some time for overreacting but it's hard for me to give him murder 1.

Murder in the first would be overreaction by society. Murder in the second, or manslaughter, would be much more reasonable. Murder in the first is premeditated, thoughtful murder, and this was more in the category of a crime of passion -- Murder two or manslaughter.

469 posted on 07/26/2005 3:45:20 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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