"If the facts are as reported, this is a disgrace to gun owners and conservatives alike.
He deserves to have the book thrown at him."
Oh get off your high horse.
If I found someone stealing anything - and I mean ANYTHING from my property, I'd shoot to kill. That is the line I have drawn.
The minute you start trying to break down what is defensible or indefensible about killing someone over, you weaken the pro-gun rights movement at large.
Was the boy on the property illegally? YES
Was he taking something-ANYTHING- from the property that did not belong to him? YES
What he was taking is immaterial.
Those two facts in my book are enough to take his life. The world is really just that black and white. When society get caught up in shades of gray, that is when it starts to fail.
Don't believe me? Just look at Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and a host of others.
Meyer Lansky (Jewish mobster of Murder, Inc - mafia) once had the chance to kill Adolf Hitler when he was an up and coming politician in Germany, but was talked out of it. I bet six million Jews wished he had done it)
A thief who gets away with something once will get bolder and try it again. (I should know, my business was burglarized twice in the past month - never caught who did it, but its the same M.O.) The bolder they get, the bigger crimes they try, leading up to and beyond murder.
I'd would rather have read about this little punk laying in the street with his brains spilled over the road than this pro-Obama politcal drivel the press has wrought. It might make other vandals think twice before trying stupid stuff like that.
If you can not draw a line and stick to it, whoever you are, than put you guns away and take up pottery.
