White man faces trial in US for shooting Black teen who went to wrong house
Teenager Ralph Yarl was shot without warning through a door after going to the wrong house to collect his brothers.
Teenager Ralph Yarl was shot without warning through a door after going to the wrong house to collect his brothers.
The more stories like this I see, the less I sympathise with gun owners. If you all are so cowardly that youll kill anyone that stepped on your property or looked at you "the wrong way" or was black or a child in school, I want your hobby taken away.
You should have reigned in your crazies if you wanted to not be seen as a threat to society.
In my town, Tampa, a retired police chief shot and killed a dude at the movie theater because they got in an argument and he threw popcorn on the cop.
The trial was extended over two years and the cop got off scott free.
That must have been tactical assault popcorn, the cop was lucky to get out alive. What a poor little soul...
There's a very profitable industry that lives out of scarying this people. The same happened with that lady that killed a Uber driver because she thought she was gonna get kidnapped.
There's a Behind the bastards episode dedicated to this subject worth checking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK2ADmAjiF0
This is blaming a group for the actions of some individuals, which has got to be some logical fallacy.
If you want to call for no more guns have at it, but I've got to take issue with your reasoning.
Blaming a group that is many many times more likely to kill those around them and habitually defends their hobby with gems like "What if we need to overthrow our democratically elected government?", "There is no amount of people that die due to guns that would convince me gun ownership isn't worth the cost" and some lame analogy equating guns with penises and gun homicide with rape as if that didn't write the jokes about gun owners itself. (If you're a little slow, it means a lot of you just came out and said the quiet part out loud. Some of you really do use guns to compensate for... shortcommings)
And the fact that further down, you're arguing that "only 42,000 die a year" and that most of them are suicides (as if those deaths matter less for some reason) just proves my point. Could many of you handle guns responsibly? Sure. But I dont think that tens of thousands dead a year is worth waiting to find out which ones.
i dont think everyone should have their guns taken away. i used to have a coworker, retired now, who when the topic came up of crime hed say something like "i hope someone would, id love to." to me that sounds psychopathic. someone like that might should have their guns taken away.
Well you're clearly not as smart as you think.
“He said he hoped he didn’t kill anybody,” Gale testified.
Prosecutors don't want you to know this one wild phrase.
Mfw face when I get my neighbor's mail by mistake and as I'm dropping it off to him I hear "IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!"
What im wandering is this: is this one of those houses where you have to enter the yard in order to ring the bell/knock on the door? If so, this is an actual death trap - you dont know if this is the right house, and in order to verify you have to step into the property where you may be legally shot.
How do you protect yourself when you have to visit a house but are not sure which is the correct one?
You can't legally shoot someone for entering your yard...thats why he's on trial.
As a young black man what actually has to happen in order for it to be illegal for someone to shoot you?
Vitiligo?
In all seriousness, MLK Jr. style of mass protesting and boycotts. It will be tough to sell such an inconvenience, so getting that ball rolling seems very difficult.
I don't consume conservative media, but I'm wondering is there some current of thought that's leading to all these shootings after someone goes to the wrong door? Seems like there's been a lot recently, and makes no sense to me.
And then there's this. So that makes me think that the shooter will win this case.
That's a very different case. Read the actual article. That guy broke a window and was reaching in to try and unlock the door at 3am. The whole thing was caught on a surveillance camera. I think they made the right choice not charging the home owner if those reported facts are accurate.
Is anyone else seeing a broken link to the piracy community when they click this?
How do you goto the wrong house?
He was picking his brother up from a friend’s house. It wasn’t where he lived and he was unfamiliar with the area. If you search for the original news stories from when the event took place, more detail is given.
That's your question? Not "how do you shoot a kid through your front door?"
Maybe there was a typo in the address he was given. Maybe the house didn't have clearly marked address on the front. Or just maybe your question has nothing to do with a gun nut shooting anyone that knocks on his door.
Tbh it doesn't matter if he had any business at the house. He could go there to ding dong ditch, or ask a survey question, or complain about their yard, or ask how their day is going.
None of these things are a legal reason to shoot someone knocking at your door.
He had the wrong street name when he was going to pick up his little brother.
This question cannot be legitimate
