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In reply to the discussion: POLICE: VEGAS MOM, SON SEARCHED FOR VEHICLE BEFORE SHOOTING [View all]hamsterjill
(15,243 posts)55. There's something wrong when a mother goes and gets her 22-year old son who has a gun.
Obviously, the events of this story are still unfolding and being learned so perhaps this is premature for me to be thinking as I am.
But what mother goes and gets her 22-year old, armed son to potentially engage with someone (i.e., the other driver) who she already knew was angry and volatile? There's something wrong with a parent putting a child, even a child that age, in a position of having to defend his mother. By introducing a gun into the equation, exactly what was she expecting the outcome was going to be?
Of course, in hindsight, we all wish she had just called the police once she was safely at home, and allowed them to conduct an investigation.
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We gots guns and we gonna use them. Killing is SO much easier to settle scores when you have a gun.
Fred Sanders
Feb 2015
#10
The problem was that the prosecution didn't present an alternative narrative
Taitertots
Feb 2015
#59
That's actually what I meant. The mother & son were the aggressors, hunting the other party with a
Coventina
Feb 2015
#19
There is no report of any confrontation except when her daughter was driving AND the shooting
happyslug
Feb 2015
#46
We have gone completely off the rails as a culture and society. How much further proof do you need?
Hestia
Feb 2015
#22
Of course she was looking for trouble. She went with her armed son looking for the
still_one
Feb 2015
#31
So which one was the good guy with the gun that stopped the bad guy with the gun!?
villager
Feb 2015
#35
There's something wrong when a mother goes and gets her 22-year old son who has a gun.
hamsterjill
Feb 2015
#55
She and her armed son became the aggressors when they got in the car to find the car and
Dont call me Shirley
Feb 2015
#60