[Info-vax] Completely OT: Frank Lloyd Wright

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On Oct 26, 8:14 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <k6dr9i$47... at news.albasani.net>,
>         Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com> writes:
>
> > Bill Gunshannon wrote 2012-10-26 12:40:
> >> In article <733ad$5089cd9c$5ed43c14$22... at cache60.multikabel.net>,
> >>        Dirk Munk <m... at home.nl> writes:
[...]
> >>> That's good. Just think of the guy who shot his 15yr old son a couple of
> >>> weeks ago, because he thought the boy was a burglar. Life must be hell
> >>> for him now, waking up every morning in the knowledge that he killed his
> >>> own son.
>
> >> Except for the fact that he was a burglar.
>
> >> bill
>
> > So what? Not particual easy to regret a fired bullet.
> > I guess he'd preferd that he had taken his car, or something...
>
> ???  He wasn't after a car.  He was attempting to break into a neighbor's
> house.  A neightbor who happened to be a relative.  He was armed and there
> is no reason to believe (based on what we read in the daily newspapers)
> that he would have hesitated to use his gun.  And the neighbor (his aunt)
> was home at the time and is the one who called the father to come to her
> aid.
>
> Criminals are criminals.  If the police were willing to pull the trigger
> more often there would be a lot less of them. And individual citizens
> would find it much less necessary to do the job themselves.

I suppose we should cut off burglar's hands if the gunshots don't kill
them. Hey, why not torture them, too?!

In the 1990's and 2000's, the crime rate in New York City was greatly
reduced without "pulling the trigger more often". Moreover, IIRC, NYC
police fire their weapons less often than police in most other U.S.
cities.

> Maybe what the father really needs to be asking himself is why his kid
> was an armed robber in the first place.

The son was robbing his own father's house? Fascinating. Didn't the
parents ever go on vacation? Need more details here.

>
> bill

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>
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Wouldn't two wolves be enough?