How about we get the Casey Anthony Juror Bashers over here.
Maybe...just maybe...the Prosecutor is to blame?
Again?
It’s sick out there and getting sicker — Bob Grant
gotta know your regulations before you pull the trigger. he should have been more patient and let them enter the home and then killed them both.
As a gun owner and full supporter of home defense with said gun I think this guy probably pulled the trigger too soon. Wait until they lift something at least. You can’t shoot people in your driveway.
He should have gotten a bounty. Reduce the number of criminals, reduce the number of crimes.
Further irony when considering that after spending so much time in prison when he gets out after 5 years - he will probably loose the house he was sent to jail for defending.
Especially the ones who are killed!
Pretty much the only way to stop these kinds of crimes is to make the criminals FEAR going on to private property.
If I were on the jury, I would have simply held out for a not-guilty (regardless of what the judge or anyone else says). The only winners when good-guys go to jail are the criminals.
The deceased was there in fact to rob the shooter. The shooter shot the robber’s car first, the robbers did not flee, and they shined a light into the shooter’s face. I think it’s reasonable at that point for the shooter to assume his life was in danger. Peaceful robbers would have pissed their pants and fled.
The soviet socialist tyrannical state of Washington.
This should be appealed all the way to the top. The right to self defense needs to be better upheld.
Remorse & regret should never play into the equation of guilty/not guilty. Had a fellow juror pull that stunt once. In that case, remorse by the defendant would have been admission of guilt.
I employ the “breaking glass” rule.
After hearing breaking glass, you can shoot any damn person you find in your house.
If you didn’t hear breaking glass, you’re probably best not to shoot.
A 3AM, wrong address, a$$h++e, loud mouth, drunk, late luggage delivery guy is fortunate I applied this rule when he drove his Pinto up our winding driveway to our rural home, and approached a ground level bedroom far from any entrance.
I'm astounded by this verdict is this part of the country. People have been shot in those parts for looking at others wrong.
Hey, I own guns to protect me and mine, but you can’t just start shooting people walking up your driveway.
He’s lucky all he was convicted of was manslaughter.
That’s the way Washington state wants and DESERVES it.
Hell, it says that he ambushed people walking up his drive way and they were unarmed. Damn what a fool, lucky it is only five years.
I gather he can comfort himself with the expression, “better to be in court than in the morgue” or “better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6”.
This sounds like present day England. The devil might be in the details, but if the homeowner had been a cop it’s pretty sure he would escape censure, let alone punishment, for the very same thing “I thought I saw a gun so that’s why I shot him.”
I wish the news report got into this part a little deeper. How did the cops know this?