[Gunrunner2]

Went after the "reporters" bias that he was in effect an innocent man, just a harmless prankster and not the serious criminal that he was. Armed robbery is serious, or didn't you know. The reporter put the emotional hype in the article and I objected. Said what had happened to the bad guy was bad. The whole situation needed to be put in context--the bad guy was a bad guy, not some innocent prankster. "Strong implication". . .only for those that read fast and emote, not think.

Bye-bye, got things to do.

[jammer]

Excuse me. What was the point of your post, then, if not to say that he deserved it? Just to mouth off to say the guy was a criminal, which we all, including the guy, knew?

No. You would not have posted unless you either had a point to make or that you were lonely and just wanted some conversation.

[CaptainK]

You can always count on the Times to infantilize a criminal. The cashier who was looking down the point of a gun, well why even mention him.

He just happen to find the gun on his way. Right.

[A. Pole]

whole situation needed to be put in context--the bad guy was a bad guy, not some innocent prankster.

Have you ever wondered if YOU are a good guy? You do not seem to be.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

They are people of bad race and lineage; out of their countenances peer the hangman and the sleuth-hound.

Distrust all those who talk much of their justice! Verily, in their souls not only honey is lacking.

And when they call themselves "the good and just," forget not, that for them to be Pharisees, nothing is lacking but- power!
(Thus Spoke Zarathustra - by Friedrich Nietzsche)