Sqrl on 01 July 2008
| The Ghost of RubangB said: Zen, Belonging in prison and deserving to die are completely different things. However guilty these people were does not justify their murder. I could walk down this street right now and shoot some gang members and make the world a better place, but I would still go to jail for murder. Those fuckers scare the shit out of me, but that doesn't make it okay to kill them. This isn't Taxi Driver here. If this guy was afraid, that doesn't make it okay for him to shoot people. The actual law in question here doesn't even cover the neighbor's house. The guy didn't even know the neighbors. He broke the law, and they bent the rules for him. He should be charged with manslaughter and the people who found him innocent should lose their jobs. Yes, people risk death when they break into somebody's house. But nobody should ever be shot in the back when they're running away. |
@bolded,
Again, legally it does if he was afraid for his life from the people he shot.
I mean the irony here is staggering, you are willing to convict him in your mind based on the limited details and assumptions you were able to scrape together from the article. So you in essense are willing to see him put in jail for the rest of his life (he is 61 iirc) and you even have the benefit of time to make a careful decision where as he didn't.
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