Late last night

[KiotiKowboy]

WTH? You guys live in a place where it would be normal or expected to shoot a kid because he yells a word? He's lucky he doesn't get shot for yelling? Really?
Are you people really that scared? ...

Well ....... we found his daddy

To answer: No, I wouldn't whip out a sidearm and dust the idiot for yelling freeze. I'm sure I would have a hand on my sidearm while making a very quick determination of his intent. Point being, he could have gotten himself shot - and - if I'm on the jury - the shooter would walk.

 

[Citydude]

Oh boy, here we go... Time to watch Goldrush. Goodnight!

 

[Danno1]

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As much as I believe in the 1st Amendment (2nd, et al.), yelling "fire" in a movie theater IS a crime. This kid put himself and bystanders in danger.




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[DT86]

-Referring to getting hit in the head with soda in a store full of people packing guns.

I said nothing about the guns that may or may not have actually been there.

 

[SPIKER]

Oh boy, here we go... Time to watch Goldrush. Goodnight!

Was a good show, I was waiting to see Grandpa S. in it! Parker is one of the reasons to still have faith there are some strong willed hard working kids left somewhere even if they are deep in the Klondike!

Mark

 

[Cat_Driver]

I think he was talking about HOW COLD it was outside

 

[Citydude]

Was a good show, I was waiting to see Grandpa S. in it! Parker is one of the reasons to still have faith there are some strong willed hard working kids left somewhere even if they are deep in the Klondike! Mark

It was a good show. I was disappointed that most of it was a re-run. Parker, hard working but needs a lesson in how not to take his frustrations out on the people around him.

 

[dave1949]

I think he was talking about HOW COLD it was outside

Seriously, the same thought occurred to me. What if someone says, "Dang, I'm freezing!" with emphasis on the "freezing?" Then one of the well-regulated convenience store militia members who hasn't put new batteries in their hearing aid shoots them.

CCW does not equal judge, jury and executioner, skipping straight over some basic rights like due process.

The penalty for an inappropriate sense of humor is not summary execution--or I'd have been dead long ago. :laughing:

If you want the power of instantaneous death or maiming that a gun affords, you should be held accountable for your judgement and the consequences. Nothing in the 2nd A. removes that burden.

I find it troublesome, but wholly predictable, that the proliferation of gun carrying results in thinking that 2nd A. Rights extend to somehow excusing deadly mistakes made while exercising those rights.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

As I recall the original message, he yelled FREEZE - not I'm freezing, or it's freezing.

 

[dave1949]

As I recall the original message, he yelled FREEZE - not I'm freezing, or it's freezing.

So what? That's still no excuse for mistaken, quick and deadly results that guns make so easy to happen.

Maybe the kid deserves a fat lip, a good lecture, banned from the store, walloped with a 2 liter Coke bottle, whatever. There is a difference in the end result.