Be my guest. Explain how having a law that says it's okay to protect your property or your neighbor's property by killing someone you feel is threatening it doesn't lead to fucked up belief that killing someone for stealing your neighbor's tv or killing a seven year old you think is tresspassing is okay.
You make it sound as if the 7 year old was by himself. The fault lies with the parents that took this child offroading on property that didn't belong to them, nor the public, from what I understand it was an access road that is owned by them and their neighbors.
Unless you've been victim to the noice and abuse caused by offroaders, you wouldn't understand, but it's a heck of a lot more than just "tresspassing".
BTW,
I think the minute you commit a crime, you should lose all your rights and killing a person while that person is stealing a tv is perfectly okay in my book. Yeah, I know it doesn't jive with the law, but how would you like to have your most precious possessions stolen? And worse, you could have stopped him if you were allowed to shoot.
There are a whole lot of things wrong with this world. The fact that people defend robbers and tresspassers is one of them.
Wow. I'm stunned. What's next, sheila, lynch mob justice?
You can look at the photos of the couple who killed this little boy and fault the
parents of the child who died. Sheila read the story futher. The couple was mistaken and the family were not tresspassing.
The boy was shot and killed because the couple couldn't tolerate the noise of the ATVs.[/QUOTE]
Think about it.
And according to what I read in the article, while they weren't on the couples private property, they were on a private roadway that belonged to them and their neighbors. Either way, the atvers were where they shouldn't have been.
Certainly the kid didn't deserve to be shot, but I place at least some of the blame on the father that took his kids off roading on private property without permission from the owners, that's assuming he didn't have permission from one of the neighbors that jointly owned the property they were on, nothing was mentioned about that, if they had permission from anyone of the neighbors than the couple are definately at fault, but I still fault the father.