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Another Mad American With A Gun !
http:// www.dai lymail. co.uk/n ews/art icle-27 05005/H omeowne r-makes -astoni shing-T V-boast -shooti ng-preg nant-ho me-inva der-dea d-plead ed-merc y-polic e-say-A CCOMPLI CE-char ged-mur der.htm l
He shot her, despite her telling him she was pregnant. He shot her in the back, she was unarmed but he still hasn't been charged by the Police !
He shot her, despite her telling him she was pregnant. He shot her in the back, she was unarmed but he still hasn't been charged by the Police !
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I can understand the fear and anguish of an 80 year old coming home to find a robbery in progress and then being assaulted- absolutely terrible. I can understand him firing in self defence if there was a skirmish, what I can;t understand is him shooting someone in the back as they ran from his property after they had said they were pregnant and were very obviously...
17:43 Sat 26th Jul 2014
She is dead because she was there....imagine the shock and panic he must have felt.....and anyone who has been attacked and injured by two younger and fitter people will know that shock and panic don't instantly disappear and give way to reasoned thought when the attacker turns away.
Whether he should have a gun is another matter.....but burglars in America are aware that many householders are armed....
Whether he should have a gun is another matter.....but burglars in America are aware that many householders are armed....
Can I make it perfectly clear that I am not defending burglars, either here or in the States. This woman and her accomplice were clearly up to no good and were committing a crime. Of that there is no room for doubt.
My purpose in making this thread was to discuss the rights and wrongs of not charging the man who killed the woman but instead charging her accomplice, who cannot possibly be guilty of murder. Guilty of assault and burglary but not murder.
My purpose in making this thread was to discuss the rights and wrongs of not charging the man who killed the woman but instead charging her accomplice, who cannot possibly be guilty of murder. Guilty of assault and burglary but not murder.
"I'm pregnant"......"I'M PREGNANT!" what has that got to do with the immediate situation.
I am only guessing how i would respond....but...
I am 80 years old and i come home to find someone trying to open my safe. First thing is to deter them and secondly, perhaps more importantly, DISABLE them.......in simple terms, make sure that they can't hurt me.
A gun is clean and impersonal....the first shot shatters their collar bone, they turn and run, but are you sure that they wont retaliate?
No.....give them a second blast to make sure....the back, the spine.....anywhere.
Then...perhaps i would feel...safer.
I am only guessing how i would respond....but...
I am 80 years old and i come home to find someone trying to open my safe. First thing is to deter them and secondly, perhaps more importantly, DISABLE them.......in simple terms, make sure that they can't hurt me.
A gun is clean and impersonal....the first shot shatters their collar bone, they turn and run, but are you sure that they wont retaliate?
No.....give them a second blast to make sure....the back, the spine.....anywhere.
Then...perhaps i would feel...safer.
I think it may be something called the Felony murder rule , abolished in the UK ..
. ..."it makes any participant in such a felony criminally liable for any deaths that occur during or in furtherance of that felony."
http:// en.wiki pedia.o rg/wiki /Felony _murder _rule
. ..."it makes any participant in such a felony criminally liable for any deaths that occur during or in furtherance of that felony."
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Evening Sqad ! ...very, very hot here in Wales this week...not as hot as you normally experience I expect but 31 degrees is not nice. Yorkshire Wolfhound and I are knackered by lack of sleep.
Derek Bentley was sentenced and hanged a few weeks before I was born in 1953. He was another one that couldn't possibly have shot and killed the Policeman, as he was in the custody of another Officer at the time. It took over 30 years for this miscarriage of justice to be finally sorted out and he was given a Royal Pardon, followed by a quashing of his conviction for murder. Different times and different legal regimes of course.
But I repeat that if this chap is not charged with anything, how can we be sure that justice has prevailed ? That is all I am asking.
Derek Bentley was sentenced and hanged a few weeks before I was born in 1953. He was another one that couldn't possibly have shot and killed the Policeman, as he was in the custody of another Officer at the time. It took over 30 years for this miscarriage of justice to be finally sorted out and he was given a Royal Pardon, followed by a quashing of his conviction for murder. Different times and different legal regimes of course.
But I repeat that if this chap is not charged with anything, how can we be sure that justice has prevailed ? That is all I am asking.
It has been on Sky News that she wasn't pregnant:
http:// news.sk y.com/s tory/13 08048/b urglar- killed- by-home owner-w as-not- pregnan t
Her accomplice has been charged with "burglary and murder because of his alleged involvement in a felony that led to death".
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Her accomplice has been charged with "burglary and murder because of his alleged involvement in a felony that led to death".