he's just trying to help Pop quiz: You are at your local Home Depot, hating your life because you are at your local Home Depot, when you see some loss prevention officers chasing down someone that stoled a thing from your local Home Depot. Do you: Do nothing, because the loss prevention people are on it?
I thought it was because a large part of the teabagging crowd got theirs with medicare assistance and then went to complain about entitlement programs.
"Put your leg out and trip the fleeing person as if you are in a bad sitcom?"I totally did this to a mugger once. He stumbled, but didn't actually fall down. I felt bad for the guy he just mugged, but later I realized I was dumb for doing it, because I could have gotten hurt.
In Britain that could have easily been "Attempted assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm", or even attempted murder (both under the Offences against the person act, 1861). It would be nothing to do with the 2nd amendment (though use of fire arm, even if legally held would be an aggravating factor), and all to do with excessive force.
Was there a direct threat to life and limb? No. He was fleeing. Therefore trying to kill someone (and if you are firing a gun at them on purpose you are trying to kill someone) is excessive force.
A few years ago a man chased a burglar down the street and beat him to death with a cricket bat. Found guilty of Murder. He isn't as famous as Tony Martin, probably because he is Asian (sub-continent Asian). Tony Martin shot a burglar with a legally held shot gun as the burglar attempted to flee, and his murder conviction became a cause celebre, with people saying just because you shot someone it the back doesn't mean they didn't have it coming as it was only a Traveller burgler, and he had it coming for being a criminal. Later reduced to Manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility ( diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder exacerbated by depression and that his paranoia was specifically directed at anyone intruding into his home.)
Shooting shoplifters, when you are a member of the public...
Yeah, because fuck making sure you take the vehicle's registration, get a good look at the suspect, of if at hand use your camera phone for later police identification. How is that helping?
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I thought it was because a large part of the teabagging crowd got theirs with medicare assistance and then went to complain about entitlement programs.
"Put your leg out and trip the fleeing person as if you are in a bad sitcom?"I totally did this to a mugger once. He stumbled, but didn't actually fall down. I felt bad for the guy he just mugged, but later I realized I was dumb for doing it, because I could have gotten hurt.
And that fading whiff of Eau de Mitt.
Well, I'm not, any more. Of course, I could still become even less so.
You don't think she was in teh Soviet Union when that aired?
What about the girl scouts? Or the Young Pioneers?
Not if I know 12 year olds.
For some reason, people have always asked me to help.
Just be sure to get to that class on Saturday at 10 to learn how.
The only one of these stores I've heard of is Home Despot.
There's a strip club about half a block from where I work. It's about half a block from teh convention center, also, too. Probably unrelated.
I hear you. I was aiming for irony there. Missed like the Home Depot gun lady . . .
In Britain that could have easily been "Attempted assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm", or even attempted murder (both under the Offences against the person act, 1861). It would be nothing to do with the 2nd amendment (though use of fire arm, even if legally held would be an aggravating factor), and all to do with excessive force.
Was there a direct threat to life and limb? No. He was fleeing. Therefore trying to kill someone (and if you are firing a gun at them on purpose you are trying to kill someone) is excessive force.
A few years ago a man chased a burglar down the street and beat him to death with a cricket bat. Found guilty of Murder. He isn't as famous as Tony Martin, probably because he is Asian (sub-continent Asian). Tony Martin shot a burglar with a legally held shot gun as the burglar attempted to flee, and his murder conviction became a cause celebre, with people saying just because you shot someone it the back doesn't mean they didn't have it coming as it was only a Traveller burgler, and he had it coming for being a criminal. Later reduced to Manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility ( diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder exacerbated by depression and that his paranoia was specifically directed at anyone intruding into his home.)
Shooting shoplifters, when you are a member of the public...
Yeah, because fuck making sure you take the vehicle's registration, get a good look at the suspect, of if at hand use your camera phone for later police identification. How is that helping?