@Ceili,
Ceili wrote:Dave, snowballs can and have killed people.
I find that hard to believe.
Ceili wrote:I'd venture to say a crossbow is more deadly than the stones the boy was throwing.
I deny that; getting killed with a rock leaves u equally as dead as getting killed by a bolt.
Ceili wrote:I'd also venture to say anyone willing to shoot an arrow at a living person, a human being, a child... from a moving vehicle,
through the streets of a city, he was lucky he not only didn't kill the boy, but also didn't shoot an innocent.
We can agree that when u avenge yourself,
u shoud be careful not to harm anyone who is innocent.
Ceili wrote:Regardless what the outcome was, a man shot a child for throwing a rock... at a car.
Dare we hope that he has
LEARNED to stop doing that??
I feel that
MY cars r safer for the efforts of that good archer!
Ceili wrote:You don't believe in the law Dave.
Yes; agreed; that depends on
which law,
e.g., the 16th Amendment does
NOT authorize discrimination,
yet citizens r penalized for financial success, at different rates.
I certainly do not believe in that. Laws provide that citizens below age 18 cannot vote. I don 't believe in that.
In violation of the Bill of Rights, US Constitution, some gun control laws have been enacted: I don 't believe in those laws,
but there r other laws in which I believe.
Ceili wrote:You believe in swift justice.
Yes; "justice delayed is justice denied."
Ceili wrote:Indiscriminate vengeance.
Well u shoud discriminate
against the perpetrator
and in favor of everyone else.
Ceili wrote:So what if the car got a dent. It's repairable.
Is the
PERP going to pay for it??????
I don 't think he will.
Will
U pay for it?? I doubt
that.
Ceili wrote:A life isn't replaceable.
Tuff luck for
THE PERP.
All he had to do was leave other people's property alone,
the same way that he wants
HIS property left alone.
Whatever the perp loses is
his own fault
that he brought on himself.
Ceili wrote:Car's don't need defense, they're cars Dave.
Their
owners do.
Ceili wrote:A thing v.s a life.
If he restrains himself
from throwing rocks, then he 'll have no problems.
I don't think that 's asking too much.
Ceili wrote:A boy's life. A boy who is made of snips and snails, and puppy dogs tails.
And before you bring up your childhood, I've read your stories Dave. You had an odd life. One does not negate the other...
That gives him
NO RIGHT to throw rocks at property nor at people.
Ceili wrote:Most kids have a thing for rocks. They carry them home in their pockets,
they pile them up and save a bunch in their drawers.
In addition to collecting
COINS, Guns, and Kaleidoscopes
I had and have a fairly decent collection of petrified wood.
Ceili wrote:And most kids throw a rock or two,
OK, as long as u don't threaten any person nor property.
Ceili wrote:they get yelled at, get the holy hell scared out of the them
over the consequences of their rock throwing actions and they never throw
another rock. It's an endless circle.
If the same thing had happened to
ME,
as a kid (if I committed that offense) I 'd know that getting shot
in the gut with a bolt was what I brought on myself
and that I
DESERVED it.
Accordingly: I respected people 's rights.
Ceili wrote:You have established that you think it's a-ok to meet out street justice for throwing a rock.
Potential lethal punishment for a misdemeanor.. where do you draw the line?
on an Individual, case by case basis
David
