From Pundit Nation:
No, wait, strike that.
At the delightful prospect of enraging the state's conceal and carry crowd, the case of Adrial White should be exhibit A in why we should be discouraging people from carrying guns around for "self-defense." Thankfully, the jury found him guilty.
From JSOnline:Jury finds Racine man guilty in shootingThe basic story here isn’t hard to understand: Some gun-wielding hot head decided to play Judge Dredd, and waste the lives of two people over some minor property damage to a car.
Rejecting the defense's argument of self-defense, a jury today found Adrial C. White of Racine guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and two counts of attempted homicide in the shooting death of a young Racine man and the wounding of another in a case that has divided the community.
The verdict means that White could face life in prison when he is sentenced.
White had contended that he was acting in self-defense when he went outside his house early Jan. 18 and found three teens attempting to break into his girlfriend's car. White testified that he felt threatened when he confronted the young men and one of them raised a tire iron above his head.
Prosecutors, however, contended that White had no right to use lethal force to defend property.White was accused of shooting to death Christopher "Eric" Cabajal, and shooting at two other young men, seriously wounding one of them.
Some in the community thought White had acted like a vigilante in the shooting; others thought he had the right to take a stand against crime in his neighborhood.
How much harder would this case have been for prosecutors if we had been a conceal and carry state?
2 Comments:
O.k. so should he have just walked out in the alley and yelled "citizen's arrest?"
Instead of grabbing a gun, he could've grabbed a camera. After all, he was at his own house. Then he could've called the police. The police could've done that thing they do (policework) and, aided with photos of the people, they'd be in jail instead of a grave.
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