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In reply to the discussion: Fellow shot at theater was texting his 3 year old daughter [View all]Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)in this case I suggest no trial (the facts are clear) and no need to worry about "unusual punishment". The perpetrator should be shot at sunrise without a last breakfast. Can we do it tomorrow please?
This is outrageous but it is the culture the NRA and certain political figures (2nd Amendment remedies) have created. It is where rather than resolve differences by calling the authorities you become a vigilante. The underlying premise is the person with the gun is in the "right" and of course right with God for striking down this father and husband because he was texting?
I have been frustrated with people in theaters, church, etc. that text or don't silence their phones but usually the glares from the others is enough to modify their behavior.
This 71 year old will now become a ward of the state of Florida with NRA members paying to keep him alive because he felt he had the right to use deadly force to resolve a texting dispute?
Really? This is the American mentality of 2014.