Posted on 09/17/2009 1:25:06 PM PDT by George - the Other
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.
Never bring bare hands to a katana fight.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-edboardbios,0,4450844.html
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?
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.
“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.
>>>>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
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).
“But even burglars don’t deserve to be killed with a razor-sharp sword”
See, that’s where you and I disagree Mr. Editorializer.
But I’m a very soft-hearted person :)
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”.
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.
I think those would be rare, especially if the perp has a weapon.
They ARE impressive.
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...
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.
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!
LOL!
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.
Thank heavens I live in rural PA where 911 is the number you call for cleanup.
the question of whether the situation couldn't have been handled differently will remain irrelevant
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