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Keith Jarrett - Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)

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Interesting Times2/09/2013 4:22:17 pm PST

re: #47 goddamnedfrank

If you read the linked story in the tweet I posted, you’ll see the armed homeowner’s actions contain multiple levels of fail. If he insisted on confronting the prowler (as opposed to, say, calling 911 and leaving it at that), why the heck didn’t he just point the gun at the guy from a distance? Instead, we get:

Witnesses told police the victim saw a man he didn’t know in his friend’s backyard and went outside to confront him. They fought and the victim was stabbed. Police say the victim’s gun went off during the struggle, but it isn’t clear who fired it.

Isn’t the whole point of using a gun for self-defense purposes to avoid close combat with someone stronger than you? o_O