Re: Man shoots at noisy teenagers, killing one

In rec.autos.driving P. Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>    When someone is coming at you with a knife, then you have
> provocation to shoot them.  No one was coming at this guy
> with a knife.  He simply lacked both the sense and self-control
> to handle this situation well.
> 

*GRUMBLE* Having some one do something that is constantly irritating to 
you and won't stop does tend to make you want to do drastic things. That's 
what I mean by provocation. I don't think he should have acted on his 
impulse to shoot (and honestly, who knows if he meant to kill them, I 
personally think it sounds like he was just stupid, meant to scare them, 
and accidently hit one), but, I don't think what he did was unprovoked 
either! And those teens should be taught that doing such stuff can cause 
things like that to happen. Not everyone is going to obey the law unless 
you want to stick enforcers in every single household. Sorry, but it is a 
reality check. Keep poking some one with a stick, regardless if it is 
something that's padded and won't hurt them, and eventually some are going 
to snap whether you like it or not.

Alice

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