JuanCarlos
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This guy was a complete idiot who unnecessarily put himself in harms way and killed two guys for property theft. This guy is not an ambassador for the gun culture, he's an idiot who will hopefully see some serious jail time.
The guys who think he is an outstanding citizen and should be rewarded are probably the militia members that the far lefties talk about so much.
I'll just chime in that incidents like this are the exact kinds of things that get our right to defend ourselves (or even own firearms) in other situations taken away. This is the exact kind of thing that liberals (or just people without romantic visions of the old west) can point to to convince people that "self defense" (which this wasn't) isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Those guys could have been hardened criminals or stupid teenagers...the fact is this old white guy was scared to death two black guys breaking into a house in "his" neighborhood and was mortified that it might be him. That's fair enough.
Actually, it appears they were actually Latino. And just to head it off at the pass, it appears that at least one was Puerto Rican...so a citizen.
Kidnapping in progress, murder about to happen, rape, or anything else that calls for the death penalty I'm all for stopping, petty theft is not. Anyone who would kill someone running away in cold blood having done no bodily harm to anyone is no better than the meth freak who shoots someone in the head for their next fix.
Um....I don't know about no better. I'd agree they're both bad, though.