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In reply to the discussion: 13-year-old SC boy shoots and kills intruder while home alone [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)109. Wait, what?
Last edited Fri Nov 13, 2015, 06:30 PM - Edit history (1)
Fuck, I hate debating gun freaks. They're as bad as anti-abortion advocates.
Those are your words, buzz.
The direct reply to your words was this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172181070#post98
Which groups use 'dead babies' as a cudgel to beat their opponents with again?
Which groups use 'dead babies' as a cudgel to beat their opponents with again?
What you seem to want, is to be able to throw barbs without any being thrown back. I get that not being able to create or sustain an environment where you can do that with impunity equates to debating being "a waste of time" in your view, but reality just isn't going to bend to your whims here or anywhere else.
Not to mention, you haven't in any reasonable way, anywhere in this thread, made any genuine attempt to debate me or anyone else. In fact, any time you get anywhere remotely near debating, you run away at flank speed from answering the questions or refuting the points, of your interlocutor. The closer to real debate it gets, the less inclined to answer a question or address a point you get.
Your pretense that this reflects on others rather than on you simply incredible.
And this equates to me defending criminals????
You haven't said one bad word about the home invaders in this thread. Not a single one. But you've gone out of your way to paint the boy who defended himself against them in a bad light, and you've done so repeatedly.
If you think people are drawing the wrong conclusion because of that, then explain how they're wrong.
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I would consider two guys breaking into my home not a perceived threat, but an actual threat.
Waldorf
Nov 2015
#60
Your attitude is precisely why cops have gotten away with murder for so many years.
Buzz Clik
Nov 2015
#34
"Only thing...attacked was the door:" Only thing torpedoed was Lusitania's hull plating.
Eleanors38
Nov 2015
#54
Not for these guys: lethal force is always justified whenever a threat exists (real or perceived)
Buzz Clik
Nov 2015
#24
I've actually BEEN in that situation. (warning: way more than one sentence)
Lizzie Poppet
Nov 2015
#91
If you consider an intelligent, properly spelled, properly punctuated, literate reply
Ghost in the Machine
Nov 2015
#118
He didn't *have* to run out the front door, SC's "castle doctrine" laws
Ghost in the Machine
Nov 2015
#84
You STILL don't get it, and continue to defend criminals, so all I can say is...
Ghost in the Machine
Nov 2015
#97
Since you believe that the child is guilty, and the other two are innocent.
oneshooter
Nov 2015
#116
Hell, he can't even get the story right, and keeps defending the criminals
Ghost in the Machine
Nov 2015
#115
Could have run out the front door into the other two guys breaking in from the front.
beardown
Nov 2015
#117
Damn, I swear to God I have debated you before in a dark, damp hole in a rock.
Buzz Clik
Nov 2015
#27
The fact that they were trying to break in and shoot inside the house PROVE that they were a threat.
beevul
Nov 2015
#30
And always leave a loaded gun or two lying around when you leave your kids home alone.
stone space
Nov 2015
#53
No, I don't think he should risk his life, that's why I asked why he didn't leave.
SunSeeker
Nov 2015
#73
There's really no point to this conversation, you are creating your own facts.
SunSeeker
Nov 2015
#75
LOL it is amusing too see them flip out about stories of this nature..
virginia mountainman
Nov 2015
#72
You don't want a debate -- you want only to attempt to humiliate your "opponents."
Buzz Clik
Nov 2015
#104
Breaking into an occupied residential dwelling is considered a potentially lethal threat
branford
Nov 2015
#96