The only people here who are doing anything “blindly” are those trying to find fault with Horn.
He intended to kill them? Good.
Nothing was at risk but property, and he killed them anyway? Good.
They were running away, and he killed them anyway? Good.
I don’t care if they were down on their knees crying and begging for their lives. They forfeited their right to breathe when they entered that house. Horn just made them pay the check.
The only way we’re ever going to take our country back is with a lot, ***LOT*** more of this kind of thing.
If you think a lot more of this kind of thing is going to “take our country back” then you clearly misunderstand the way this plays to most Americans.
I’m not talking about Freepers. I know that Mr. Horn is very popular here. I’m talking about the vast majority of the rest of America, the ones that voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Dummies last election. We don’t win over anyone by shooting people in the back without sufficient warning. Mr. Horn’s case will be used by the left as a prime example of the need for stricter gun control, beyond handguns and “assault rifles” and now extending to shotguns and all other types of weapons.
On this board - clearly there is the opposite reaction, but sentiment on this board rarely reflects political reality as much as it does political idealism. If you don’t believe that, just look at how different the results of the last couple of elections have been than posters on this board claimed to be confident that they would be.
I’m not calling for a pragmatic approach to win votes, but this case just bothers me as a clear example of a man who, much like Officer Gardner of the Utah Highway Patrol, was much too eager to pull the trigger.