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Sword killing no cause for cheers
Baltimore Sun ^ | September 17, 2009 | Baltimore Sun Editorial

Posted on 09/17/2009 1:25:06 PM PDT by George - the Other

"This is certainly nothing to celebrate. The glorification of the incident online and around town belies the horror of the killing and its aftermath. Even if it ultimately is judged to have been legally justified, the question of whether the situation couldn't have been handled differently will remain."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: armed; defense; protection; sword
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To: George - the Other
Any up close death is re-lived by the survivor forever.

Just think you live miles from anywhere, late for work, flat tire, no spare, no one to call, and you'll be fired if you miss today.

Got enough to think about?

Leave the guy alone.

Y'dun good, buddy-boy.

41 posted on 09/17/2009 1:41:59 PM PDT by knarf
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To: pissant

Never bring bare hands to a katana fight.


42 posted on 09/17/2009 1:42:09 PM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (Eat right,...exercise...die anyway.)
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To: George - the Other
The writer is one of the smug pukes at this link:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-edboardbios,0,4450844.html

43 posted on 09/17/2009 1:42:46 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: George - the Other
must now spend the rest of his life grappling with the anguish and remorse of having snuffed out another's life.

He wouldn't if liberal/progressives like the author of this crap didn't try to make victims feel guilty for doing justice. If more people gave the guy an understanding pat on the back type reaction, the guy who used the sword (the actual victim in this scenario) wouldn't spend the rest of his life feeling anguish. But that wouldn't play well in the liberal/progressive world would it?

44 posted on 09/17/2009 1:46:18 PM PDT by techcor (I hope Obama succeeds... in becoming a one term president.)
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To: George - the Other

According to the editorial, the homeowner was responsible for this incident because he didnt wait for the police. The burglar was just a non-sympathetic victim who didnt deserve to die by sword. Apparently the author doesnt understand the risks of burglary.


45 posted on 09/17/2009 1:46:44 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: George - the Other

“Was protecting some possessions worth precipitating an event that will change the rest of his life?”

A homeowner walking anywhere on his property has not “precipitated” anything. The idiot that attacks a man carrying a sword in his own house has done the “precipitating”.

Additionally, the moron writing the article assumes facts not in evidence. How does he know the man was only after property? Maybe his intent was to kill for the shear joy of it.

A man that breaks into your house likely knows quite a bit about you. Based upon the neighborhood that you are in and what your house looks like. He may even have cased your house for days. He has the chance to prepare for the encounter that he chooses to make. The home owner likely knows nothing about the intruder. Under such circumstances a person who does not assume the worst, may not survive.


46 posted on 09/17/2009 1:47:38 PM PDT by ks_shooter
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To: George - the Other

>>>>The burglar, Donald D. Rice, wouldn’t ordinarily deserve much sympathy. He was a career criminal with a long record of thefts. He had just gotten out of prison the previous Saturday after serving six months for a conviction in Baltimore County. By all accounts he was neither an admirable character nor an innocent victim.<<<

So why give him any sympathy? If the brave, young would be victim had not ended his career as a criminal, Rice might have killed a truly innocent person someday.

>>>Was protecting some possessions worth precipitating an event that will change the rest of his life? We think not.<<<

You could apply the same logic to calling the cops. What if a cop was forced to shoot and kill the career criminal? Would’t that affect the cop for the rest of his life?

I guess we should simply let the thugs take whatever they want. If they want to steal our possessions, let them have them. If they want to rape our wives and daughters, we must allow them to. We can’t risk a confrontation that might leave a predator dead, and “change the rest of the life” of the innocent man who killed him. /sarc


47 posted on 09/17/2009 1:49:26 PM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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To: George - the Other

Do not try this at home with the sword you bought at the corner grocery.

This was probably a quality repro.

-or, he picked it up while bumming around 16th century Japan. There can be only one.

One of what, they never say. Although, apparently, Clan MacLeod has two of them (three if you count the animated series).


48 posted on 09/17/2009 1:50:05 PM PDT by Rinnwald (Pry my clunker out of my cold, dead fingers.)
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To: George - the Other

“But even burglars don’t deserve to be killed with a razor-sharp sword”

See, that’s where you and I disagree Mr. Editorializer.


49 posted on 09/17/2009 1:50:50 PM PDT by BJClinton (Any "healthcare reform" without tort reform is a fraud.)
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To: dfwgator

But I’m a very soft-hearted person :)


50 posted on 09/17/2009 1:52:49 PM PDT by chesley ("Hate" -- You wouldn't understand; it's a leftist thing)
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To: La Lydia

The only thing that would make this better is for the hero to have stated: “I’m about to get mid evil on yer ass”.


51 posted on 09/17/2009 1:52:59 PM PDT by chadwimc (Proud to be an infidel ! Allah fubar !!!)
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To: George - the Other
Good grief, what a whiney, bleeding heart (or should I say arm) column.

But even burglars don't deserve to be killed with a razor-sharp sword.

OK, they deserve to die by a nice fat, dull piece of high speed lead. He wasn't just a burglar. He attacked a man while committing a crime.

52 posted on 09/17/2009 1:53:24 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: pissant

I think those would be rare, especially if the perp has a weapon.

They ARE impressive.


53 posted on 09/17/2009 1:53:40 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: Owl_Eagle

So for that reason, we should all cower in our houses, abdicating the right to self-defense to the police

No silly. The delicate point the writer is trying to make here, I think, is that one should use a very DULL sword...


54 posted on 09/17/2009 1:54:59 PM PDT by Paisan
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To: pissant

Yes it most certainly IS a cause for cheers. The left wing editorial board of this paper would have Americans follow the State of Kalifornia “run from your home and let the thugs have whatever they wish” rules of self-defense. The inability of our newest Supreme Court justice to find a right of self-defense in the Constitution does not mean we should ALL kneel to the criminals. Nor should we allow liberal editorials to suggest that running or perhaps begging for mercy will bring better nights of sleep to members of the only TRUE victim class. Most victims would be dead upon following the lefts rules of engagement. But then the left could lament the unfortunate upbringing and social injustice faced by the hoodlum. Makes for a much better salve for those bleeding lib hearts than a citizen standing up for his life and property.


55 posted on 09/17/2009 1:55:02 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: pissant

Me, too. The only thing that could have made this story better is if the modern-day samurai had placed his assailant’s severed head on a pike in his front yard.

Banzai!


56 posted on 09/17/2009 1:55:25 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: B-Chan

LOL!


57 posted on 09/17/2009 1:55:49 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: rockrr
Well, there was the small matter of a severed hand...;'}

True, but if the student had a minute to compose himself he probably would have severed the intruder's head. Nice. Simple. And clean...after a fashion.

58 posted on 09/17/2009 1:56:27 PM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (Eat right,...exercise...die anyway.)
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To: George - the Other

Thank heavens I live in rural PA where 911 is the number you call for cleanup.


59 posted on 09/17/2009 1:57:47 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( If you have kids, you have no right of privacy that the govt can't flick off your shoulder.)
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To: George - the Other
let me finish that up...

the question of whether the situation couldn't have been handled differently will remain irrelevant

60 posted on 09/17/2009 1:59:41 PM PDT by GulfBreeze (Palin 2012 - For The Change You Wanted!!!)
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