Poll: Man shoots and kills murderer, released pending a grand jury review

[JMeganSnow]

That's... a pretty sick mentality from my viewpoint.

Oh, it is. (That people will pull guns in traffic and such, nothing wrong with being ready to defend yourself from an attacker.) I've lived in tepid parts of the country for most of my life (that, and I don't go out much) so my personal problems with this sort of thing have been limited, but I've had friends who did precisely the same job I did get robbed at gunpoint and so forth. I think sometimes that I must have a magical psychotic-repelling field to have avoided all this stuff as long as I have.

Either that, or everyone's just blowing smoke up my ass, which I won't completely rule out.

Addendum: I may actually have that psychotic-repelling field and not know about it. Most of the people I know rate me as having high self-confidence (which is a laugh, but oh well) and from what I have heard your psychotic bullying types tend to be very sensitive to that sort of thing. I'm the person who, when confronted with someone trying to, say, cash a clearly stolen check, will insist on ID and have them storm out the door (leaving said check in my hands) instead of actually getting belligerent. I have no idea how it works, if it does, but there you go.

 

[Katnap_Devikat]

Cosidering this happened in Texas and Texans love a good 'kill a man and be executed' sort of trial this Tow Truck Driver did the community and tax payers a favour by getting rid of all the pesky paperwork and years this guy would have spent languishing on Death Row.

Joking aside I reckon he was in the right, he could just call self defense as the guy was most likely going to shoot him, i mean no one stops at just one murder when in that sort mood.

 

[Trolldor]

"Towing my car?"

...

"I'd better kill him!"

Someone please fill in the gap, because I honestly can't fathom what the hell connects those two thoughts. What a prize tosser - and that's being very, very mild.

...Gee I wonder?

The guy clearly had a screw loose, and the fact that two are dead from gunshots is another clear example of why you need greater gun control.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

This is self defense, completely justified unless you are against self defense. Its pretty much imposible not to justify his actions

 

[Wayneguard]

Regardless of how you feel about the their job, this is OBVIOUS self-defense. He's going to get off scott free, as he should.

 

[klaynexas3]

Justified self defense. They should confiscate his gun (really, this right to bear arms is ludicrous. What is this, the middle ages?) and let him go free.

why should they take his gun? he only used it in self defense. he was nowhere in the wrong and it's clear his need for a gun was extremely high

 

[klaynexas3]

That's what happens when it's easy to get a gun like that.

Yeah it happens in countries where guns are illegal, but much less.
America is the 1st or 2nd country with more citizens in prisons and with more murderes, easy guns are one of the reasons.

The truck was right in this one though, but if guns were illegal probably none would have died.

you take guns, they'll use knives, you take knives, they'll use rocks and sticks. no matter what, if someone is crazy enough to kill, they won't stop just because they don't have a gun, they'll be willing to use the next best thing, and at some point we'll just be killing with our hands again. and the weak victim doesn't stand a chance if the strong killer attacks them if they don't have a gun to protect themselves. there should be more control over who gets guns, sure, but not completely illegal. besides, it doesn't happen in other countries as much because they aren't bat-shit insane. americans are. they'll get guns illegally, or use the next best thing.

 

[klaynexas3]

Well yeah, self-defense and everything. No problemo.

What's worrying me more is that a damn tow-truck driver has a gun with him at work. Are their lives so dangerous they have to be armed?

clearly? did he not just lose the life of his partner and could've have just as easily lost his own?

 

[klaynexas3]

"Towing my car?"

"my gram of charlie sheen is in there"

"I'd better kill him!"

Someone please fill in the gap, because I honestly can't fathom what the hell connects those two thoughts. What a prize tosser - and that's being very, very mild.

 

[Quaxar]

Well yeah, self-defense and everything. No problemo.

What's worrying me more is that a damn tow-truck driver has a gun with him at work. Are their lives so dangerous they have to be armed?

clearly? did he not just lose the life of his partner and could've have just as easily lost his own?

Yes, I know that it was a luck he had it on him at that time. I was just questioning the logic of bringing your weapon to work every day for a job like that.
Again, I'm not saying he shouldn't have brought one, I just hope things like this don't happen so often that it is necessary to do so.

 

[Stickwell]

I guess this would be a good example of letting people freedom to bear arms to defend themself. Though I guess the whole thing would've been avoided if the first guy didn't have a gun.

I just feel bad for the Tow Truck driver because he has to live knowing he killed a man. Even if it was out of self-defense it can be pretty straining.

Well, It doesn't state if the gun carried by the attacker was legal or not, If not for the freedom to bear arms, this man would have had an illegal weapon and the two victims would most likely be dead.

Definitely true! You could take it the other way and say if gun control was incredibly strict, to the point that the average guy who gets towed could never get a hold of one, it would've been avoided completely, but I'm probably a bit of a wishful thinker. I'm certainly not clear on how easy it is to get ahold of one illegally.

I'm from a small town in Iowa, and I can say that it is way to easy to obtain an illegal firearm, as opposed to obtaining one legally.
They don't hand out concealed firearm permits to everyone, but we wouldn't have as much of a need for them if criminals couldn't get there hands on them through illegal means so easily.