That's what public defenders are for.Quote:
Originally Posted by indivision
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That's what public defenders are for.Quote:
Originally Posted by indivision
I thought that even public defenders have the option to turn a case down if they want to. Is that right?Quote:
Originally Posted by lefteyewilly
Sometimes the judicial process just gets in the way. The guy admits to 911 that he just shot a kid. The kid wasn't armed and posed no immediate threat to the property owner. The kid was obviously down for the count with the first shot, even if he was posing a threat. The second shot was an intentional "shoot to kill," shot.
As far as I know, Ohio doesn't have Florida's same law about shooting someone, so this is an open / shut case, but no, we have to waste state / federal tax dollars on bringing this to court.
Some might argue "closure for the family," or "they need justice." The justice is in the punishment, not the process.
the guy measured his lawn with a ruler after he cut it. I don't there there is any issue of immediate danger or threats or anything like that. He is nuts, and needs to be removed from society.
I have often thought of shooting my neighbour... He vacuumes his lawn at 7am every sunday, takes him about 4 hours and my bedroom is about 2 feet from the side fence where he feels the need to rev the life out his little blower thingy...
but we arent allowed any guns here unless they are for sport on hunting (farms)
*cough* Penal Colony *cough*
Not sloppy journalism, just sloppy reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by TallGuyLittleCar
If you read the article you'll see that the reference to the Florida law was part of a wider overview of how states are relaxing gun controls, the "stand their ground" law was an example of that.
he vacuums his lawn?Quote:
Originally Posted by CookieSnMilK
Yep... cant be any grass cuttings or little rocks on it, Gosh, no leaves either! ... I dont know if he measures it or not but i wouldnt put it past him...
I knew a guy once who would hand dye each blade of his grass to make sure it was all the same colour green...(my dads a landscaper, so we find a few lawn freaks around...)
True there was nothing sloppy about the journalism, but what does states relaxing gun controls have to do with the shooting in ohio?Quote:
Originally Posted by aversion
relaxing gun controls leads to more homicides. obviously.Quote:
Originally Posted by TallGuyLittleCar
That's crap, if you outlaw guns then only criminals will have access to guns and the rest of us will be screwed.Quote:
Originally Posted by indivision
Look at Texas, they have the most lax gun laws in the union.....they also have one of the lowest crime rates. No one wants to rob the local liquor store when you don't know who in the store might be packing heat. Little old Granny just might have a .357 packed away in her purse.....
It's called journalism, you don't restrict yourself to only covering the events of the story, you put it in context. Would you cover the London bombings without putting it into the context of world affairs? Without mentioning the bombs in Madrid?Quote:
Originally Posted by TallGuyLittleCar
This article is for a British audience. You may take yet another deranged shooting in your stride but in Britain we look at the levels of gun violence in America with fascination and apprehension, since it seems to be spilling over to Europe. Thus the desire to put an extraordinary shooting like this into a wider context, a large section of that article deals with informing the reader about the levels of gun violence in America, over 80 people a day killed by them, etc.
I don't think that's too hard to understand.
um...aren't you in Canada?Quote:
Originally Posted by aversion
My mom makes me vacuum the walls. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by sk8Krog
I agree 100%. The evidence supports this.Quote:
Originally Posted by EVPohovich
you can use context to imply a link between two things that are not necessarily connected. they could just as easily, under the guise of making it a "world affair" cited the number of cases crimes have been stopped by citizens using firearms legally.Quote:
Originally Posted by aversion
I've been scared off some old guy's property with a shotgun before, although I dont think he actually would have shot me, he did shoot it in the air though, they are a bit psycho.
People in Ohio (especially the Cincinnati area) have a special fascination with shotguns. The only time that I have ever had a gun pulled on me was in Cincinnati...and it just happened to be a shotgun. If his wife wouldn't have pushed it back along with the fact that he was really drunk and I ran away really quick I wouldn't be surprised if he would have shot me.
i thought that sleeping with another mans wife was against the code over there in Utah.Quote:
Originally Posted by jasonsplace