Parents of Deceased Robber Mad at Employee Who Shot Him: ‘Why in the hell did this guy have a gun?’
Not that I advocate the use of guns, but when you may work in a crime ridden area, and face the risk of someone coming in with a gun to get their dose of drug money, I have to be ok with having something to counter it. The justification of "that is the law enforcement peoples job" seems so weak as to not have any merit. By that logic, every person should give up their home defense weapons, since it is not their place to protect themselves, and anyways, the bad guys don't MEAN to hurt anyone. I guess the idea of if you didn't go into a Pizza Hut to rob it, you wouldn't be dead, had no place in the discussion...really....this is just so depressing...
The fact that he needed to rob the pizza hut to provide for his son is telling, after 50+ years of the great society, the economic opportunities for young men in the inner city is woeful. The message of victimization does nothing to encourage the rising above the status quo.
This story will be repeated on a daily basis
as long as collectivism rears its illogical head.
The fear factor at play was that the robber would start vengefully gunning former coworkers down once he had his hands on all the money.
A point blank head shot is the surest way to make sure your armed target does not turn around and shoot you.
By the way, if you got a gun on someone for a good or bad reason, don't ever look away. You just might get shot in the back if not the back of the head. Duh!
Kinda know what I'm talking about.
Me dino is trained to shoot and has NRA qualified 20 X 3 times if you just want to talk about three different weapons. More so with a sidearm.
Only too happy to dispatch a thug-robber or thug-"protester" who threatened my life or property (at least when I'm present at that property and personally threatened by the intrusion).
Fortunately, in Montana, we have the Castle Doctrine-- and, quite often, a gun or guns to back it up with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_...
The local yokels, especially the ones who voted dry for religious reasons, called the city of Tuscaloosa "Sin City."
Ha, me dino went to that "Sin City" almost every weekend with or without a date, Dry counties have no discos and the one I lived in did not even have one decent movie theater. There was a crappy one only black kids went to, marking up the movie screen by throwing soft drinks at it.
Had one opportunity to vote "wet" and did, but that county since Prohibition has remained dry to this day.
Guess moonshine stills are still being blown up there.
Yeah, I know what Las Vegas is called.
Ah.
Um...
Are you f&^%ing kidding me? I found myself literally mouth a-gape watching this story.
Late edit here...I think this story may actually be fake - just cooked up by the news crew, the mother actually being an actor. I refuse to believe people are this stupid. They can't be!
1. A similar scenario was played out, earlier this year. A robber was shot by a customer and the family said the customer should have just driven away as it was not his problem.
2. Hillary was still able to attract over 200 Electoral votes.
If an actress, she fails to play the inconsolable mother. If genuine mother, it's shocking how calmly she speaks.
He was just doing his rounds collecting money :)
How will you feel getting shot while just doing you job?
This world is going totally crazy... ;)
Responsibility is going right out the window.
The arguments they're using are disturbing. She's saying people shouldn't go outside their assigned roles and take matters into their hands. I think this is completely wrong. It's great if a person making pizzas is also thinking up a new pizza oven, ready to use a defibrillator on someone having a heart attack, and ready to use a gun to stop an armed criminal. It's so wrong to tell him to just get back there and focus on the pizza dough.
She painfully described where the bullet entered, saying it must have been personal. If you're like me and not that accurate with a handgun, in a situation where you don't have time to aim you just hope to hit the target somewhere. I would be concerned about missing at 2 meters range. I would have no ability to make the bullets hit specific body parts.
When she speculates the shooter might have been motivated by something other than the armed robbery that was in progress, it's really sad. She's trying to process the reason her kid turned to crime. My heart goes out to her.
When it is victim based there is no responsibility for behavior too often seen today. Hence the blame shifted to the defender from the robber.
Not really, besides their both being wrong. When someone decides to point a gun at someone for robbery, it's all on HIM. His parents and public policy may or may not have been supportive, but I think it comes down to what he did. Collectivism has gone up a little in recent decades while crimes has gone down a little. I think violent crime and collectivism are human problems that are only indirectly related.
Yet retribution is a frequent topic recently proposed by the UN. Biden talks of "the white man wants to shackle you". Another of Obama's race czars said Trumps win was a "whitelashing".
Collectivism sacrifices the individual for the good of the group.Collectivists put the blame on anything but their own actions. Witness your Clinton campaign blaming Comey , blaming
The basket of deplorables ,the ignorant Uneducated whites. Sanders gang blames Clintons dirty tricks.
The progressives blame white privilege .
Denial is not the norm for humanity it is the norm for Collectivists.
That is obvious, and the most likely reason parents would irrationally deny their child's criminal responsibility for his own death is also obvious.
We see a lot of denial, but that's the norm for humanity. I don't think there was a time when most of humanity could recognize they were getting emotional and use critical thinking to avoid falling into the trap of selectively looking at evidence the rationalizing acting on feelings.
" allowing your kid to go do stupid things"
I agree, but we don't know these people allowed it. At some point kids go up and can make horribly wrong decisions, and they're parents can do nothing to stop it.
If I knew the people in this story personally, I would not argue unless they asked if I agreed with their reasoning.
Yes, overwhelming denial.
Someone posted audio from a 911 call here a few years ago. The 911 operator, probably do her job as instructed, told the caller to lie low and take no action. The caller thankfully did not comply and instead shot a criminal who was on a murdering rampage.