New York man sentenced to 25 years to life for fatally shooting woman who pulled into wrong driveway
New York man sentenced to 25 years to life for fatally shooting woman who pulled into wrong driveway
The man who fatally shot a woman who was in a car that turned into the wrong driveway was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life for his second-degree murder conviction.
Having a gun for self defense fucks with your head. When my wife and I lived in a relatively rural area, I used to keep a shotgun under our bed for protection, but I eventually got rid of it. Never shot it a single time, but you'd better believe every time I cleaned it or moved it or just remembered I had it, I was imagining the horrible situation I might be forced to use it in. That shit low key fucked me up. Strange sound in the middle of the night? Better grab the gun.
I can't even begin to imagine carrying one on me, especially in public. I like to think I have a pretty level head, but some people are just waiting for you to look at them the wrong way so they finally have that moment. So frightened or psychotic or some combination of the two that their first instinct is to just start shooting. Hell, my wife's cousin-in-law got in a fucking shootout when he cut someone off in traffic.
Used to be very pro responsible gun ownership, but lately I'm thinking that level of responsibility is far too rare in people.
In my experience, overly fearful people that get terrified over nothing are the primary audience for gun ownership. The mindset it takes to responsibly own and carry a gun is RARE.
I have 60+ year old relatives that suddenly all decided they wanted a gun, just because one of them bought one and won’t shut up about the confidence it gives her. She literally bought it just to walk to and from her car, which is parked directly in front of the business SHE owns, despite there being absolutely zero crime happening in her parking lot, and not bothering to set up security cameras. She literally bought a gun because she was afraid of a non-existent problem, and made no non-violent effort to correct the issue. I’m waiting for her to shoot some poor homeless person asking for change…
If owning a gun makes you confident, then you’re a scared little baby. Especially the guys with big trucks that drive like they’re trying to provoke people. I KNOW you have a gun. You bought the little dick pride set, so there’s no way you don’t have a gun. Quit trying to make excuses to pull it out. Pussies. FYI, I’m driving slow in front of you BECAUSE you’re driving like an ass hole and riding my bumper. Wave your gun at me again. I do not care.
I'm sure this guy did fear for his life. I am sure he did feel like the safest thing he could do in that moment for himself was to fire directly into the unknown car.
And that's why he doesn't belong in our society. He is not welcome to participate given that the above is true, and we need to remove him until the end of time to ensure that no such thing can ever happen again.
Fearing getting shot for pulling in a driveway seems an almost alien concept.
I've lived in the city, and way out on a dead-end country road and it's never once passed my mind anyone could get shot for that.Being the last house... people would turn around here regularly.
No one ever thought about shooting them, like wtf.
Although, for the ones who zoomed by at speed oblivious that the road was being into fieldsand whatnot, we did take bets on how long they would take to come back on foot after sticking their car in a ditch or something.
Anyone who thinks about shooting someone coming into their driveway is a fucking sociopath.And he would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for the victim being white.
Good.
Fatally shooting someone who accidentally drove into your driveway is just SO United States.
A-1 Quality judge up there in NY.
Good
Fucking good. Rot slowly, psycho.
I was waiting for some news on this and I'm so grateful to hear that he's actually gonna be punished.
Absolutely nothing can make up for what he did, but I pray to the cosmos that this deters other fools.
Good. Fucking nut bastard.
If he did this in Florida they would have thrown him a parade.
Consequences. Not enough for the damage inflicted, but at least consequences.
Yeah, it's stuff like this that's made me afraid to pull into driveways to turn around. I'm afraid to even pull up and stop next to a house in a neighborhood I don't know. There have been so many stories like this going around lately.
The judges quotes are great.
He’s got “I shoot people in my driveway” hair.
Here's hoping for life.
Good.
He gon' lose that hair real fast
Good. I hope he rots
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I made no comment about that so idk why you felt the need to say it. My comment was questioning the logic of calling someone frightful and in the same breath saying they're not easily frightened.