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JustWait

On 10/19/2011 1:30 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:15:21 -0400, X `
wrote:

Had a young guy walk into my house a few years back, at 1:30 in the
morning.. I used a baseball bat to remove him, not a gun. Turns out he
was a escaped patient from a home down the street, and didn't know where
he was... If Harry had had the same, a innocent person would be dead
instead of just having a broken rib...

We're smart enough down here to tell the difference between a little
**** intent on violence (like you) and someone suffering from a
non-violent mental disorder.

I suppose we really don't know if this guy had violence on his mind.
He was taken out before he could do what he came there for.
It would be interesting to track him down and see what he is doing
now. If he turns out to have killed someone later, was not shooting
him better for society?
Breaking into a strangers house at 0130 is not an indication of a
person with good things on his mind.

As a purely legal thing, shooting someone and hitting them with a bat
is pretty much the same thing.

Well, in this case you are 100% wrong.. I could have swung for the cheap
seats, but two hands on either end of the bat, cross block to the chest
technique I used (instead of swinging it like a bat), was specifically
intended "NOT" to kill him, just back him out to, and then off of the
front porch. Once he landed on his back in the front lawn, I didn't
follow him, I retreated back into the house and waited for the cops. If
he stood up and came back to the porch, I would swing for "the cheap
seats" and I made that real clear to him from inside the house...

For the record in hindsight, after finding out who he was (a patient
from a group home down the street), I doubt he meant any harm, I believe
he is still a resident there to this day. I do know one thing though, if
the "only" weapon I had was a gun, I would have shot him and never
doubted my decision. My wife and kids were standing behind me screaming,
I doubt anybody but JPS (who would try to talk to him) and our own
internet hero (who is just waiting for the opportunity to kill someone
with his guns) would do anything different than I did right then and
there...