[rightly_dividing]

This is a local story happening in South Alabama. It has about 100 comments on the column that get into the castle doctrine and arguments pro and con.

Read the article, and comments. I only posted parts of it.

It is not a national story because it does not offer the JJ and AL an opening to play.

[longtermmemmory]

so this was documented as an ACTUAL DIRECT home invasion and they are calling it similar?

Interesting, that would imply Martin was engaged in criminal conduct first...

[bgill]

No, it's nothing like the Martin/Zimmerman thing. The mother, "All the negative things and innuendoes are not helpful. The main fact is there is a teenager fighting for her life. It doesn’t matter what the circumstances were that led us to this point. I’m sure it was not intentional, and was a huge accident that never should have happened, but it did.

Yes, it very much does matter what your daughter was up to that night. If they hadn't been trying to break into someone's house, this wouldn't have happened. What was a nice innocent girl doing out all night with three guys?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

> “It doesn’t matter what the circumstances were that led us
> to this point.”

Yes, it most certainly does.

> “I’m sure it was not intentional, and was a huge accident
> that never should have happened, but it did.”

No, it was not an accident, and it only happened because there was a crime in process, and she was accessory to that crime. If she dies, then the other criminals are liable to be charged with her death as a homicide, though the man who actually shot her will likely not face that charge.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“At some point in time,” Sheriff Huey “Hoss” Mack...”

The Sheriff needs to be advised that the expression “point in time” is a redundancy, like “knots per hour”.

Either “At some point...”, or “At some time...”, would have been acceptable.

[Pollster1]

Cute girl. It's a shame she was out burglarizing people's homes at 4 am. Whether she was entering the buildings or acting as lookout while her friends entered, she was part of a criminal enterprise. Some people are barely getting by. If you kick down their doors and steal their stuff, you are putting their lives in danger. I have a little sympathy for the girl, if she didn't understand, but Darwin is a harsh teacher. I wish her parents had done a better job raising this girl, so that she wouldn't have been there and been shot. She was shot in the back of the head? I'm just barely okay with that. If she was a lookout for the other three burglars and turned to shout a warning, it's hard to see the aspect change in the dark, particularly if she moves after the decision to shoot. The outcome is sad, just as the outcome is sad that a cute little boy like Trayvon grew up to be the kind of kid that has to be shot in self-defense, but once the kid makes those bad decisions, I won't fault the shooter (who may well feel pretty bad about this outcome).