Posted on 04/29/2014 1:57:58 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
Or they could have learned their lesson after spending some time in the hospital and in juvenile hall and put all this juvenile delinquency behind them like a whole lot of people in this adult world and on this forum who probably did such things as teenagers and worse.
Teenagers do stupid things -- that's why juvenile records are buried, because teenagers often outgrow juvenile delinquency like these kids would have.
Oh, a Christian should just sit down and make himself comfortable while they bash in his head with a baseball bat, or shoot him with one of his own guns that they stole previously...
What does Matthew 5:39 say?
A 14-minute audio clip from his home security system was played for jurors in a Morrison County courthouse during his murder trial on Tuesday, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
and yet:
A high-dollar Obama donor who was caught on video brutally beating his girlfriend got off with 25 hours of community service... CCTV footage caught Gurbaksh Chahal, the CEO of San Francisco tech startup RadiumOne, kicking his girlfriend 117 times, including blows to the head, and trying to smother her with a pillow during a vicious 30-minute assault. He faced 45 felony charges until the footage was deemed inadmissible...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3148783/posts
In the last year on this forum alone there have been countless cases of homeowners mistaking boyfriends, stepdaughters, alzheimers patients, girls wandering from car accidents, .... and shooting them dead — all under the delusion that their home is more sacred than human life that comes to it.
This psycho was operating under the illusion that these were the perps that burglarized his home a month earlier — and he was wrong — just as the homeowners pulling the triggers above were also wrong. He shot them out of misplaced anger not fear — out of vengeance for something that someone else may have done.
Just because you are the one with the gun doesn’t make you morally superior. Rights come with responsibilities and part of that is making sure that you have thought of the consequences of pulling that trigger.
Is that too difficult for you???
There was another group of kids who practiced their band in his garage until they either left or were told to leave.
Are you sure he’s not talking about those kids???
Dishonest?
I posted two of your disjointed complete sentences...The rest is meaningless. If someone posts 15 paragraphs, are we required to post all of it?
Anyone who thinks what this person did was even remotely legitimate, rational, reasonable or legal, has either not read all the details, or has very serious thought processing issues.
That includes you.
Cheers!
Go burgle a house.
I'm speaking as a lawyer. To slightly paraphrase the law in New York, just as an example, someone is guilty of murder if he intends to kill a person and kills that person or another person. But he is not guilty if he reasonably believes that killing that person is necessary to defend himself against unlawful deadly force by that person.
So, yes, the difference between murder and self-defense is defined purely by the defendant's mental state.
According to the article, it seems that the “kids” were the perps.
According to the article, the defendant's lawyer says that the victims were the perps in prior burglaries. But the defendant didn't take the stand in his trial, so he never put that defense before the jury.
I guess it was a decision between exposing him to cross-examination, versus getting the information out about being harrassed and invaded and terrorized. But still, it seems the latter outweighs the former by a wide margin. It doesn't seem that he got the best defense.
Find the word “police officer” in the Constitution. Sorry, but people have more rights than government entities and its on-duty employees.
Enough of the high drama. They criminally trespassed, b&e-d and he shot them to death. Everything else is noise and petty drama.
If I were the judge I would have excluded that as well - it would have been prejudicial towards, and even more damning for, the defendant.
Thank you for your explanation and of course you are correct according to our laws. I was thinking more of the Biblical 'Eye for and eye' philosophy in that the two miscreants were burglaring his house. He killed them. Whether it was merciful or not, if the pair had not been in his house illegally, they would not have been shot.
What, we are up to 23 linear feet of Federal law and the Ten Commandments, including the one about not stealing, takes up one page. Sometimes the law is an ass.
Absolutely — that article is damning to Smith.
Neither he nor this Anderson guy ever picked up the phone to call these kid’s parents??? even though he knew their names and where they lived.
And he never confronted them??? and this Anderson guy never advised him to call the parents or the police and to name names.
Talisker, please post this article — I have some real tough questions for this Anderson person.
I love a story with a happy ending!
Ohh I wouldn't consider the death of two teenagers and Byron Smith having to spend the rest of his life behind bars "a happy ending" but this incident has brought out the pervertedness of a lot of people.
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