"there’s still a dead kid here." No, there’s a dead goblin who happened to be 15.
Good riddance. List his obituary under "Public Improvements." |
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Because that man on the porch had it coming, and because my .38 pistol isn’t a pistol, not really, it is my Smith & Wesson Visa card. I pull out my S&W Visa and people give me things...it’s simple. That guy on the porch had "things" and I had my Visa, and so putting the two together I conclude his things can be mine with my Visa. And then dude ruins it all by pulling out HIS pistol and shooting me!
Anyone can see that is wrong! Dudes, what is the matter with all of you? All I did was what anyone with a Visa card would do when they see something they want...and this old man shoots me?! WTF!!!! |
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Gonz, dead on... No pun intended.
I hope the guy puts a big poster of Johnny Cash giving the one-figer salute on the side of his house...
Way to go, way to defend yourself.
Note to would-be criminals: Don’t pull a gun on people, and they likely won’t pull one on you. Pull a gun, and you BETTER shoot first, because I know that I will open fire, and likely most others would too.
It should be noted that since he was on his porch, he didn’t NEED a CCW permit. He was on his property, and can carry a weapon however he choses in his own home. |
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It should be noted that since he was on his porch, he didn’t NEED a CCW permit. He was on his property, and can carry a weapon however he choses in his own home. Unless he’s in some place like D.C. or San Francisco. |
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If Wells had been a police officer and Buford had pulled a gun on him, he’d be just as dead and it would be justified. Yes, it’s sad and tragic when someone so young goes astray and throws their life away but as Bruce said bullets do not respect the age of the shooter or the victim. By using a gun Buford put his own life at risk. |
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John, a lot of the time cops hesitate now when someone points a gun at them. They are supposed to REASON with the nut.
REASON with them? TALK THEM DOWN???
Screw that... "Yeah, I attempted to reason with him. I entered into a short debate consisting of short, one-sylable words. The suspect saw his way to my way of thinking, and laid down on the ground whil simutaniously bleeding from multiple holes..." |
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John, a lot of the time cops hesitate now when someone points a gun at them. They are supposed to REASON with the nut.
It’s human to hesitate in the face of danger, but I know quite a few cops that wouldn’t blink in shooting him if they felt their lives were in danger. Bottom line: if you point a gun at someone in a manner that makes them think you are going to shoot, your life is threatened. |
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His cousin, Tameka Foster, 21, questioned why police did not punish Buford’s shooter.
"They let that man run out freely," Foster said. "My cousin is dead." This pisses me off, this is retarded thinking. If my sister pulled a gun on someone while on their porch and the guy shot her and killed her i wouldnt blame him. I would blame myself for not trying to get my sister whatever help she needed, cause normal people don’t pull guns and rob someone on their porch. I would possibly even apologize to the guy for being put in such a position. The gunman raised the stakes by threatening his life. |
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Gun supporters said the weapon saved Wells’ life. Opponents said it took Buford’s - that the 15-year-old might be alive if a citizen had not been armed. Seems to me that Wells alive is a good thing.
Also seems to me that Buford dead is a good thing.
Win win, if you ask me. |
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Also seems to me that Buford dead is a good thing.
Win win, if you ask me.
This kind of thinking is detrimental to our argument. It is not a good thing that Buford is dead; and it is not win-win.
It is a more desirable outcome that the criminal is stopped -by the victim- in the process of committing his crime; but that does not make it a good thing that the criminal is dead.
This situation -like all other situations in life- is a trade-off: the prevention of a crime at the cost of the 15 year old’s life. |
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There a concealed weapon probably saved a man from being a victim of armed robbery and possibly death: Oh, I can’t help myself.
Guns don’t save people, people save people. Toby Hoover, of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, said she had not heard of any other fatal shooting involving a concealed-carry permit holder.
"This is one of the few where they actually used it to stop a crime," Hoover said. Somebody call her on this. Like, Guncite. |
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I’d imagine Hoover is speaking of locally, but in any case he’s still lying; he’s playing the game of "If you didn’t shoot anybody or at least fire a shot, you didn’t actually use the gun to stop a crime."
So no matter how many robbers/rapists/burglars/murderers were chased away or held for police, those don’t count since you didn’t actually shoot them. |
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And yeah, "They let that man run out freely," Foster said. "My cousin is dead." Not a damn word about your cousin running around with weapons robbing people, oh no. That doesn’t count, either. |
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Ike: You’re quite right. It didn’t end up win/win; it ended up win/lose: bad guys lose, good guys win.
All’s returned to right, at least for an instant, in that corner of the world.
It’s sad that a 15 year old died, but not wrong; there’s a difference. |
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My take on the cousin:They let that man run out freely No, they let him sit at home minding his own business. They let your COUSIN run out freely... There’s a difference. |
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This kind of thinking is detrimental to our argument. It is not a good thing that Buford is dead; and it is not win-win.
It is a more desirable outcome that the criminal is stopped -by the victim- in the process of committing his crime; but that does not make it a good thing that the criminal is dead.
This situation -like all other situations in life- is a trade-off: the prevention of a crime at the cost of the 15 year old’s life.
—Ike
From a political perspective, you are probably right. Saying things that are not PC can hurt us.
Yet remaining politically stupid, I still see it as win-win. One less bad guy running around.It’s sad that a 15 year old died, but not wrong; there’s a difference.
—Ron Good
I agree. But the sad part begins with the 15 year old turnig to crime, not with him being shot.
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I think that the "sad but not wrong" point is a good one. And important.
And it’s not about the kid *deserving* to die. It’s that he chose to die.
Maybe he didn’t deserve it at all. He could be a hardened and evil soul and untold people may have been saved by the fact that one of his intended victims shot him dead early on, or he might have made a stupid choice just this once got talked into it by his buddy (who maybe was older and gave the "juvenile" the gun because a kid gets in less trouble in court) and maybe he’d have never done a thing like it again in his life because he was really a "good kid."
It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter why he made the choice he made to point that gun at someone. He made the choice and *he* chose the outcome.
His death can very well be "sad" without being "wrong." |
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An angry throng of about 30 youths gathered Monday and set up a memorial at the intersection where Buford, a freshman at John F. Kennedy High School, died.
His cousin, Tameka Foster, 21, questioned why police did not punish Buford’s shooter.
"They let that man run out freely," Foster said. "My cousin is dead." Let’s presume the kid’s 30-odd friends are all about the same age, which means at least 6 or more years in school, and they’ve already learned:
a) victims ought to be disarmed,
b) causing death due to self-defence is as criminal as killing someone in a robbery or thuggery attempt,
c) it’s really not about right or wrong, it’s about "my friennnnnnnnnnnnnnds" and "my cuzzins",
d) it’s right to be angry when your friend gets killed threatening somebody, rather than disappointed or shocked he put himself in that situation, and
e) there’s nothing like a public sympathy-ploy demonstration to get your point accross.
Like I said: sad. |
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Ron Good
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the sad part begins with the 15 year old turnig to crime Or, re my last post: the sad part started well before he turned to crime. |
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Ron Good
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