# A brain for a tooth - Deserved?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brain-for-a-tooth-deserved/130451>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 1, 2002, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brain-for-a-tooth-deserved/130451 "2002-10-01T21:42:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brain-for-a-tooth-deserved/130451/41 "2002-10-03T19:25:50Z")

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**World Eater** said:

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> Nobody else seemed to blow my view out of context.

The “context” being that you were wrong?

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**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brain-for-a-tooth-deserved/130451/42 "2002-10-03T19:50:29Z")

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I would say misunderstood, my OP was based on the facts at the time.

Those facts have changed.

Got that sparky?

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brain-for-a-tooth-deserved/130451/43 "2002-10-04T16:30:18Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Zoggie \*  
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> Well actually, more accurately, wasn’t it that the 10 year old threw the egg, and the fourteen year old who tried to intervene between him and Young was the one who got punched? It seems like the 14 year old wasn’t really doing anything wrong, and that he didn’t really do anything that caused the murder. But in any case, the gang members really were in the wrong. \*\*

Yes, your description of who got punched is more accurate.

I do not know that the fourteen year old was doing nothing wrong. The article only said that he got punched while trying to “intervene” between the passer-by who got egged and the ten-year-old who egged him. I got the impression that the fourteen-year-old participated in the beating.

If the fourteen year old was trying to defuse the situation, he did not deserve to lose a tooth. If he was trying to defend the ten year old who started it all, or participated in the beating, he did, and worse.

Which does not affect my point that concealed carry laws, in this case, might have prevented a murder. Who’da thunk it?

Regards,  
Shodan

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