^^^ Have ever you gone up to the door of a complete stranger while in such a condition and do nothing but pound on it even after you were ordered to leave?
Holy Holly Holly.... in what way is a drunk and unarmed teenage girl outside your door deserving of being shot in the face??? Are you insane?
Did the guy know that she was unarmed? Maybe he wasn't willing to open up his door to know for sure that she wasn't because opening up his door is what the woman would have wanted him to do and if he shot at her with the door in between them, how could he have known that he was going to get her right in her face? If he told her leave and she didn't, I can't blame him for taking action when sadly the law can not get to people who need them fast enough. Anything can happen before the law shows up after a call to them is made.
God bless you two always!!!
Holly
I don't drink, so no. But I've seen enough drunks to know that an unarmed teenage girl in such a state -- or for that matter anyone -- doesn't have the hand/eye coordination to be any kind of threat. I further know that there was already a door between them -- a door he didn't have to answer if he didn't want to.
So no, an unarmed drunk teenager does not deserve a sucker shot to the face just because she's black or any other color. Take that to the moral bank.
If he told her leave and she didn't, I can't blame him for taking action when sadly the law can not get to people who need them fast enough.
I get unsolicited phone calls all the time. I tell them to stop; they don't. So I have the right to go to their office and shoot them in the face?
Through the door??
A person can't know the color of who they are talking to if there is a door in between them, so the girl's color is not the issue. What does matter is whatever she said or did to make the guy feel that a gun was needed and since you were not there to see what happened, you can't say that the guy was wrong to use his gun. No one can. Also a phone call is not the same as a person actually showing up at your door. A phone call is harmless when talking is only thing that happens when a phone call is going on. Anything can happen when a person shows up at your door.
^^^ Have ever you gone up to the door of a complete stranger while in such a condition and do nothing but pound on it even after you were ordered to leave?
Holy Holly Holly.... in what way is a drunk and unarmed teenage girl outside your door deserving of being shot in the face??? Are you insane?
Did the guy know that she was unarmed? Maybe he wasn't willing to open up his door to know for sure that she wasn't because opening up his door is what the woman would have wanted him to do and if he shot at her with the door in between them, how could he have known that he was going to get her right in her face? If he told her leave and she didn't, I can't blame him for taking action when sadly the law can not get to people who need them fast enough. Anything can happen before the law shows up after a call to them is made.
God bless you two always!!!
Holly
Still not a lethal threat.
Holly I pray that you or your loved ones do not take such drastic action in such a situation.
It would be very harsh to live with financially as well as emotionally.
Human life is sacred and precious, even us drunks.
Because there was a door in between the two of them, he had no way of seeing if she was armed or not and with the door being in between the two of them, he also had no idea what kind of person he was going to be shooting at, white, black, etc. And because we were not there to see what happened our selves, we do not know what the girl said or did to make the guy fire his gun at the door.
God bless you two and the man always!!!
Holly
P.S. Oh and JB, I saw your exchange with another person here about me. Thank you for all that you said.
No Holly, doesn't work. At all. You don't assume that what you can't see through a door is an intruder with a gun on the basis of
nothing.
And because we were not there to see what happened our selves, we do not know what the girl said or did to make the guy fire his gun at the door.
If we were not there to see for ourselves, .... how then do you know what he "couldn't see"?
What can any person
say to another person, in any circumstance whatsoever, that warrants them being
shot in the face? What can any person say that FORCES another to
shoot them in the face?
No you're not getting away with this. Let me give you what I call an "empathy test"....
Your phone rings one day. It's bad news. It seems your 19-year-old daughter, for whatever reason, got herself roaring drunk last night.
But wait, the news gets worse -- she got in her car to drive and wrecked it.
Now I hope you're sitting down because it gets worse still..... after the car accident, either from being drunk or as a result of being dazed by the accident, not sure which, she was KILLED by a homeowner whose door she banged on for help. He didn't offer her help, just shot her point blank in the face.
SHOT HER POINT BLANK IN THE FACE. From
behind a door.
She's
dead, Holly. Your flesh and blood you gave birth to 19 years ago, dead and gone forever.
Now the question is this --- what's your reaction to this news? Choose one:
(A) You're deeply shocked, overcome with grief, you feel like someone just sucker-punched you in the stomach, and you want some answers....
--- OR --
(B) You shrug your shoulders and say, "well she brought it on herself. She shouldn't have said something to piss off a stranger"
Pick one.