What is wrong with this country?

Read the posts. A significant number are even justifying the shooting based on trespassing.

internationally. I can't imagine this place if an all republican win in 2016. There will be far better places in the world to be. Nations go through peaks and valleys. IMO we are descending rapidly into a deep valley. And common sense no longer rules.

The local NRA might be mean to them or something.

The jackass who thought the answer to a bratty kid was to shoot him in the back as he was running away should have been taken into custody on the spot and held without bail, all his guns confiscated since he can't be trusted to own them. There's also the little matter of discharging a firearm in a crowded residential district, we're not talking farm country here, it's a suburb.

I'm beginning to realize there are no good guys with guns, just a bunch of potentially bad guys who can't manage to cope with life without owning deadly weapons, at least in cities and suburbs.

Whatever happened to asking your neighbors where the kids lived and then talking to their parents so they'd be grounded for a month?

Oh, right, it's just easier to use that gun that's been burning a hole in your pocket since you bought the damned thing.

in a posted yard.

http://www.koco.com/news/police-salesperson-shot-on-oklahoma-city-property-with-no-trespassing-signs/25776876

http://www.courtrecordslisting.com/courtrecord4.php?id=310224


Of course ringing a door bell can get you killed as well. In Louisiana the guy walked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Yoshihiro_Hattori

This guy in Georgia got a fine

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/georgia-man-shoots-and-kills-latino-22-year-old-pulling-wrong-driveway-gets-500


We are simply insane as a country.

I was a new college graduate, and she was a sophomore. Her friend lived at a motel run by her father. They got it in their head to go behind the hotel and mess around (look in rooms - I don't know what). I was trying to stop them when a very angry man came out of the room holding a very large pipe wrench. I am very lucky that I talked him down. He could have killed me. All three of us were adults, and a stupid decision almost led to a battery with possible serious or deadly injuries. My wife and her friends were adults, but they were also young and stupid.

If the guy had a gun, I could just as easily been dead.

Not really the same as ding dong ditch by 14 yr old

I admit my associates (and I by association) were far more invasive of privacy than this young man and should have known better. I only shared the story as it reminded of something that happened to me. I did not do it myself, and I would never do it, and it is not typical behavior of my wife or her friend.

I share it to emphasize that resorting to violence except in the immediate evidence of a threat is always wrong. I would go further, and unless you are someone is in danger of immediate physical harm, it is never justified to use force (let alone lethal force) on someone trespassing on your property. The law in most states does allow you to use force to prevent theft of property, and it is a felony for a thief to resist that force. I still would never do it. I own absolutely nothing (except my dogs) that I would be willing to defend with force.

has a strong desire to shoot someone with it. This will continue on and on. It will happen to someone you know or a relative. No one is immune. Guns are made to kill and kill they will.

And they are pissed that it never happened. They have tried so hard to start it but "them uppity "nig234" never did have the courage to come out and fight like men".

I hear the "race war" crap all the damn time.

where the entire school band only plays one instrument - banjos.