Well, what do you expect when you take a knife to a gunfight?

The things some people say these days. Jeez....

Dead criminal's family complains victim's AR-15 made the fight unfair

 

We had a somewhat similar experience in my old neighborhood. A teen was shot and killed half in and half out of a home window he was breaking into. Shot dead by the home owner, he turned out to be the back up QB for the high school team in the next town over. To complicate matters that town was mostly black, while our area was mostly white and latino. Needless to say one side saw one thing, the other something else. The home owner was not charged.

 

They blend bathroom laws with conceal carry reform in NC. It's fascinating.

 

Yeah, I've been keeping up with the story since it first broke. I support the home owner, and I bet home burglaries drop precipitously for some time to come.

 

All disabled potential CCW appliers are not all disabled mentally either. The legislature was screwing with the disqualifying nuances of the CCW laws. Correlating people who recieve SSA benefits as "unfit" to defend themselves. There's practicality to it too. Most Sheriff deputies are not qualified to decern disqualifying medical issues. An Associates in Law Enforcement Technology is not a mental health professional. To most sheriff's clerical staff, if you have ever seen a doctor and prescribed an anti-depressant because "Granny Died", you are now considered "mentally ill" and therefore, disqualified. It's screwed up. I'm disabled for artery disease. Not schizophrenia. Give me a break. I let mine lapse. I never go out of the house so I'm okay.

 

This was not an honor duel. If you break into someone else's home in numbers and armed with knives and brass knuckles, you don't deserve a fair fight. It's perfectly reasonable to assume that 3 young men so armed intend you and your family harm. The family would be better off blaming the girlfriend/mastermind/getaway driver for the death of their son rather than blaming the victim. Having said that, these young men knew they were doing wrong as they armed themselves and wore masks to hide their identities.

 

better off blaming the girlfriend/mastermind/getaway driver for the death of their son rather than blaming the victim

If you're a police scanner officiando in any major American city in the US today you can witness people (usually angry young women) calling the police on their boyfriend DV aggressor with flavored details trying to get him killed by police. " he got a gun" "he be doing crack" "he don't like the police" " he be at this location". Murder by cop by baby-mama. So it goes.

 

If the gunfight isn't unfair, you're not doing it right.

 

I remember an article on NPR that played some time ago. They were interviewing a burglar who specialized in business burglaries. They asked him why not residences and he said something to the effect of "too likely to get shot". He hit office complexes after hours and tried to make sure there were no security guards of if there were they weren't armed. He didn't carry either as he considered that a ticket to a much longer sentence if you got caught.

 

And they say criminals are dumb.

 

From what I've read most are. That is even more true of the ones that get caught. That guy was a professional though and not someone looking for money for his next fix. He still got caught.