No one said that because you don't believe in God you are automatically an unfeeling jacka$$. A person can be raised with a conscience and with morality without necessarily being raised a Christian.
x10!........
You can sit over here with the Nihilist. :dude: It seems we share a bit on this subject.
:what:Jesus would have kicked their asses
pointing out that others may have reacted differently was not meant to obfuscate matters, but to point out that when the use of force is judged later on, that the reasonable man standard will be applied to judge whether the amount of force was reasonable. Here are the jury instructions for Justifiable Homicide:
I think the conditions for sections 1 and 2 have been met. That leaves section #3. You have folks here who would take less than lethal measures and folks here who would use deadly force. Which group is not acting in a reasonable and prudent manner? Wouldn't a jury be asking themselves those questions if it came down to that? That's my point and now I'll shut up.
Wow, this is alarming... and now the BGs know it. I wrote a stern comment. Looks like this is something that will be forced to change from the tone of the article and comments so far.
Of course the BGs know it, just like professional shoplifters know that store employees are instructed to let them go and not to confront or chase someone.
Correct Poo! And the attacker probably knew this as well as the story's have stated they had a long ongoing feud. If that is the case we have a wolf attacking a sheep.
"If this young lady had had blond hair and blue eyes and told police, 'These black kids are following me,' the response would have been different," he added.
Too bad it's true.
Go ahead and steal the credit for stating her condition after I text you my rant. LOL. I should have made it a point earlier :banghead: Yep... how much longer and faster do you think she could have run?
Lol I read about that already, I didn't mention it because I didn't want to bring up too many "what-ifs". But I'll let you have your cred back.
Too bad that didn't happen huh? When that does, feel free to say whatever, because that would probably be all you would do.
OWNED!
:celebrate oh wait... :lol:
I would agree with that. Counting the folks in this thread who said what they would do, 12 used less than lethal force to intervene and 2 said they would have shot her. One of the 2 that said they would have shot her is the same guy who said the Sedro Woolley Officer should have shot a guy in the leg in a deadly force incident, so I find his opinion suspect. Several forum members were calling that guy Boo-boo and a troll. That leaves something like a 12/1 count in this pool of folks who are probably more knowledgeable on the use of force than the average citizen. It's not up to me, it would probably be up to a jury. 12/1 odds don't sound good to me when defining what's reasonable.