[video]http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/crime/2014/05/20/erin-dnt-lah-german-exchange-student-killed.cnn-ap.html[/video] My thoughts on this are pretty simple. Don't break in to peoples homes, I blame the kid
Smoke and mirrors. I just love how the media distorts hot button issues. Please pay attention to the controversial shooting in Montana and please forget the 620 shot in Chicago this year already.
Whats so distorted in that piece? Where is the smoke? How is this simlar to the Montana shooting? I agree with Germ.
There is nothing distorted in that piece. My point has to do with which stories they pick or which piece they put in front of us and why. (Don't want to hijack - shutting up sorry Germ.)
I get your point, my issue is they are calling breaking into someone home a "Prank". Some how I have managed not to break into anyone's home here in America. Hence I have not been shot.
It probably becsuse 90% of thos 620 were probably shot with illegally owned firearms by people who can't legally own one anyway. Kinda makes all their background check and gun resistration bs look bad. I agree with Germ though I don't understand why they keep making breaking into a home the thing to do. They focus on the wrong thing and want you to feel bad for somebody who you shouldn't.
You break into a home, you get what you deserve. That isn't a prank, it's a crime. I don't feel one bit sorry for anybody that gets shot burglarizing somebody else's home.
The way they portray it really sickens me. "He was pulling a teenage prank. Entering an open garage to steal alcohol." WTF? When is stealing a prank? Isn't it a punishable crime here in the US? Because he was an exchange student is suppose to make it horrific? Really? Then they had a nerve to say "How could he blindly shoot into his garage?" I don't think he blindly shot. Looks like he hit the guy he was aiming for. Well, that exchange student won't make that mistake again!
I was wondering when this would surface here. This happened here in Missoula. The guy absolutely had every right to protect his home. The kid was being a total *** hat. Word around town was that he was always in trouble. That being said, the way the home owner set "bait" is somewhat questionable. Main question being; did the bait contribute to the kid entering the home? Either way, I'm siding with the home owner. Of course, this liberal town is in arms.
If we want to talk about media slanting things, I knew right when I clicked on the link and cnn popped up what i was going to be reading. Now if he did 'bait' someone into his house, or was 'lying in wait', that is a huge legal issue for him. That shows premeditation and is highly against the law. But if not, he did exactly what he had the right to do. Consequence for actions. Something a lot of youth are lacking in our culture.
This whole "bait" thing pizzes me off. If you don't want to get shot, don't break into someones house when you think they are not home. Pretty simple to me. I have absolutely no problem with someone moving their truck to let some sack of crap think they are not home and then taking care of business. If you don't want to get shot, DONT BREAK INTO SOMEONES HOME!
The problem is, most punk kids and young adults (and sadly many adults) don't like taking responsibility for their actions and the media wants to paint the picture that guns are the problem of society. I don't want to comment specifically on the incident because 99% of media is jibber-jabber journalism so I don't know all the facts are.
Leaving a door open or unlocked means any cretin can enter your property and do/take whatever they want with impunity. Just like it's not really rape if a guy thinks a woman is dressed provocatively. After all, she was asking for it. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk
I even love it how the chick that reading the story is putting her or CNN's own tonallogy into the telling of the story to steer your thinking. He won't do it again.
If there is one thing we can take from the last couple examples of these shootings, the shooters are not as apt, practiced or even very thought out when it comes to protecting them selves or their belongings, for example this home owner fires blindly into a dark garage, why was the area unlit if he had prior problems, why go out and place yourself in harms way,(Chuck Noris) syndrome? Is any thing in your garage really worth your life, or a thieves for that matter? If it is then you owe it to your self to have a plan, a light and a weapon that you are very comfortable with. If you choose to break in to my home, or threaten me or my family in any way, I'll take my chances with the DA, cause your gonna die before anyone shows up to hear your side of the story, the cops are 40 minutes away at best, so we are our neighbors 911, and they ours. And with gun sales growing all of the time, I think more of these shooting are just eminent.
