I don’t, but I’d certainly wager?
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I hardly think ringing a doorbell and leaving before anyone answers the door is “disrepecting other people’s property”. You have some fucked up notions if you think it is.
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Ok, call it whatever the hell you want. That’s not my central point. It’s not even my off-center point. The post was made tongue-in-cheek. Unclench.
These people take shooting children very seriously.
Oh stop. The act happened no matter what anyone says here. My typed words don’t increase or decrease its severity and I’m certainly not the only one.
Sorry. Mistook the tone of your post (before reading through the thread).
I would challenge that assertion, thinking my personal definition of annoying is the only legitimate one, but I’m afraid I’d get shot if I did.
He shot a kid… in the back… with a shotgun… for ring his doorbell and running away. How do NOT charge him with a crime for this?
I know plenty of NRA members, I own guns, but the NRA practices an ideological purity on the gun issue that transcends all that. They provide all sorts of gun safety classes but if congress tried to pass a bill that required gun safety classes to get a gun license, they would go ballistic.
As bad as the Hittori case was, there is a pronounced difference between shooting someone who is moving towards you and shooting someone who is moving away from you. When you shoot someone in the back, self defense becomes very difficult to prove.
I’m not following you.
That’s good, because if you were, I’d probably have to shoot you.
You’re forgetting people like me, i get guns because they are cool and the second and far more important reason is I like to scare people who shop at Whole Foods and drive VW buses.
What, all four of them?
The updated stereotype is “people who shop at Whole Foods and drive Priuses.”
Already covered–it’s my definition. So, we’re looking at open season on people who talk in the theater, chew with their mouths open, use “gay” as a synonym for “stupid,” or consistently misuse apostrophes.
No, it totally is. The entire point of ding-dong-ditch is that you’re being an obnoxious shit. The response was completely out of proportion to the activity, but that doesn’t mean the activity was a laudable or even neutral thing.
Concur–throwing the asshole subject of this thread in jail for attempted murder doesn’t change the fact that the kid was, y’know, actually trespassing.
No one’d think twice if the guy had, say, doused the kid with a garden hose.
True. Shoot a kid and you’re a dangerous lunatic who should be locked up.
Send a kid home soaking wet and having to explain to his parents what he was doing and you’re providing a service to the whole community.
I have lived in my current location for 19 years. When I bought my house, my yard was a ‘cut-through’ yard. I did not care for this and still don’t, so this is the action I take:
When I see anyone cutting through my yard, I approach them and say: “Hi, my mane is Dan. This is my yard. If you want to cut through my yard, I need to know your name and where you live. If you don’t want to tell me this, then don’t cut through my yard.”
This works to keep 95% of cut-throughers from crossing my property again. Occasionally, with the random snot-mouthed kid, I have to escalate with: “I can easily find out where you live and have a talk with your parents, if that is what you would like.”
I have never considered any use of a gun, including just showing one. It just isn’t necessary.
If you want to scare kids, all you have to do is pay attention to them and let their imaginations do your work for you.
I do not mind at all that I am considered the ‘mean old man’ of the neighborhood.
Alright, that’s it… Get Off My Fucking Lawn!
ETA: I’ve been waiting forever to post that one… 
Ah, but he’s Canadian, so he’s used to gun control. And a Senator, so he has the RCMP to do his [del]shooting[/del] tazing for him anyways.
No, it isn’t. It has nothing to do with disrespecting people’s property. Taking a shit on their doorstep and setting fire to their car would be disrespecting people’s property. Ringing a doorbell and not waiting for anyone to answer it is disrespecting people.
There’s a difference.
Just like there’s a difference between shooting someone who’s coming at you, and shooting someone who’s walking away from you.
