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OK:Failure of Victim Selection: Do not Burglarize a Gun Rights Supporter
Gun Watch ^ | 25 December, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 12/26/2014 4:53:53 AM PST by marktwain

Pastor Vinyard in his Church

It appears that the teen burglar did not read the papers.   It is foolish to burgle the house of a "vocal supporter of gun rights", and then attack them in their home.  Tom Vinyard is the senior pastor of Windsor Hills Baptist Church, and has been outspoken in his political beliefs.  From newsok.com:
A pastor at a northwest Oklahoma City church who has been a vocal proponent of gun rights has been cleared of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy at the pastor’s home.

(snip)

 The pastor arrived home about 3 p.m. and as he checked his house, he was attacked by the burglar, who had been hiding in a closet in a back bedroom, Prater said.
The pastor even put signs on his family's home warning criminals of the danger: From oklahomasentinel.com:
On December 23, police identified the alleged intruder as 14-year-old Keontre Reese. 
Several signs are posted around the pastor’s home. One on the front door reads, “Nothing on this property is worth your life.”
While on a mission in Africa, Pastor Vinyard's home was invaded and his skull fractured.   He and his family cooperated with the robbers, but it was not enough.  Highly restrictive gun laws in the country that they were in prevented them from being armed. 

I suspect that the experience did much to shape and reinforce Pastor Vinyard into the second amendment supporter that he is.

It is sad that his fourteen year old attacker did not pay attention in Sunday school, if he went, and did not heed the warnings on Pastor Vinyard's house.

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To: Fresh Wind; All

“What do the media style and dogma guides actually say? If you think the victim/perpetrator might be black, you MUST use ‘alleged’?”

There is an AP stylebook rule that says, as I recall:
Racial identification should not be included in any story unless such reference is clearly relevant to the story or when part of a detailed description of a fugitive.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/10/are-black-people-carrying-guns-puplic.html


21 posted on 12/26/2014 5:40:22 AM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: MaxMax

How is this abuse?


22 posted on 12/26/2014 5:41:20 AM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: fella

Keontre???

They just keep making this Shi’ite up just to show their family and neighbors that they are down wit da struggle!

I’m just going to call him Ken.


23 posted on 12/26/2014 5:41:26 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: imardmd1; marktwain

Luke / Chapter 22 / V35-38

“Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered. He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.” The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.” “That is enough,” he replied. ”


24 posted on 12/26/2014 5:48:40 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Old Sarge

Given the signage available, I would attribute this incident to the failure of the school system to teach reading and critical thinking skills.


25 posted on 12/26/2014 5:50:39 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: fella

“Yep Keontre Reese Gibsmedat.”

Well, I believe that to be very presumptive on your part. That page could belong to a different Keontre Resse...

But...I just don’t GET the name thing.


26 posted on 12/26/2014 5:57:50 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: marktwain

“Keontre” That’s an Irish name isn’t it?


27 posted on 12/26/2014 5:58:16 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: fella

wow, 14 years old. that website is amazing.

guns, gang signs, drugs, money piles. honestly, what can you say?


28 posted on 12/26/2014 6:14:08 AM PST by beebuster2000
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To: marktwain

With a name like Keontre it is likely that there was no importance placed on education in his family if he had a family beyond a mother and her boyfriends. He possibly couldn’t read the signs or disdained reading and didn’t.


29 posted on 12/26/2014 6:19:47 AM PST by arthurus
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To: marktwain
There is an AP stylebook rule that says, as I recall: Racial identification should not be included in any story unless such reference is clearly relevant to the story or when part of a detailed description of a fugitive.

My response was specifically in regard to the ubiquitous use of the weasel word "alleged".

But it doesn't surprise me at all that the AP (Absolute Propaganda) would impose a diktat like that.

30 posted on 12/26/2014 6:27:29 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Re; Your post 26

The pictures in the OK media of Keontre appear to have been taken from this site. I just Googled “ Keontre Resse pictures” and found his site.

Guess they haven’t gotten around to taking it down yet, kind of like covering up the tracks or the old Hitlery trick of destroying the evidence.


31 posted on 12/26/2014 6:38:14 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: tbpiper
“Keontre” That’s an Irish name isn’t it?

Yeah, Black Irish, I believe...very old clan.

Married into the Gibsmedat clan, so the proper name should be: "Imagitsmesomadatshit."

A lot of the families have ignored their heritage and simply go by "Trez" or "lil' bit" or even "Big Bit", you may even see "Tupac" and "Trayvon"

32 posted on 12/26/2014 6:41:59 AM PST by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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To: OldSmaj

This guy?

33 posted on 12/26/2014 6:49:38 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: marktwain
(pictures of decedent, Keontre Reese.)

(note gang signs in right two photos.)

(the lower case 'b' (lower right) is indicative of the Bloods gang, and the crossed middle fingers of 'west side', of whatever city.)

34 posted on 12/26/2014 6:55:44 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: impimp; TalBlack; sauropod
What does your post have to do with the pastor?

Some would have people believe that men of Christainty should turn the other check
and allow themselves to become victims and not fight back.

Did you not get that in my post?

35 posted on 12/26/2014 7:03:56 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
This guy?

Yep, that's Imagetsmesomadatshit.

Wonderful culture, marked by a need to live off the earnings of other people, a decided desire for shoes made in China and named after famous basketball players, which they usually acquire through theft or by taking advantage of any nearby Al Sharpton and NAN protest.

Lovable rogues, all.

By the way, that particular member is dead, dead, dead.

36 posted on 12/26/2014 7:07:27 AM PST by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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To: marktwain

One of the reasons to try to educate the Travon’s of the world is so they can read and understand that not all felonies against whites will have “happy endings” for them.


37 posted on 12/26/2014 7:09:52 AM PST by BobL (I'm so old, I can remember when most hate crimes were committed by whites - Thomas Sowell, 2014)
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To: marktwain

Some of ‘dem boys just aren’t smart enough to survive to reproductive age.


38 posted on 12/26/2014 7:13:56 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

How sad. From the pictures, it looks like this child was just a year or so away from being admitted to medical school.


39 posted on 12/26/2014 7:14:34 AM PST by BobL (I'm so old, I can remember when most hate crimes were committed by whites - Thomas Sowell, 2014)
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To: OldSmaj

Keone in Hawaii is John, Kawika is David, Kimo is James.


40 posted on 12/26/2014 7:36:36 AM PST by BigIsleGal (Wake Me Up When the Illucid Wears Off)
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