Righteous
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Attack a pastor during Sunday worship service and get shot . . . by the pastor?
Gives new meaning to the phrase “The way to stop a Bad Man with a gun is a Good Man with a gun.”
The police are trying to decide whether to charge the pastor for violating the Gun Free Zone (Michigan law doesn’t allow guns in church).
Save a pile of lives, go to jail?
Joe Doakes
It’s one of the ugly conundra of self defense; no matter how, er, righteous the shooting, you’re only as safe as the most zealous prosecutor is in the mood to let you be.
October 27th, 2015 at 9:04 am
Funny how the goobernment is quick to defend some laws but not the others.
October 27th, 2015 at 10:41 am
On the other hand, there are times when the judge gets it right and hands the prosecutor walking papers. That guy who took birdshot to the drone hovering at tree-height over his backyard? The judge dismissed the charges. The drone operator isn’t happy, but the eyewitnesses testified the drone was hovering below tree-top height for the 3rd time that day, and I tend to believe them since if the drone operator were telling the truth and the drone was at 200′ then #8 birdshot shouldn’t have done a thing to the drone (that’s well beyond the range for clay breakage of roughly 120′ for #8).
October 28th, 2015 at 12:34 pm
Might or might not have become a mass incident; other reports suggest that the deceased believed the pastor had been having sex with the girlfriend (wife?) of the deceased. If there is anything to it, this one is a mess.