I like this.
http://gawker.com/5941081/92+year+old-wwii-vet-shoots-kills-home-invader-with-rifle
Nice to read some good news for a change.
With a .22 rifle, no less! Or, should I say, no more!
Some of the comments on there drive me nuts. When someone breaks into your home you don’t know their intent and you didn’t force them to be there. Going into someones home uninvited is not compatible with life.
[quote]BeefEater wrote:
Some of the comments on there drive me nuts. When someone breaks into your home you don’t know their intent and you didn’t force them to be there. Going into someones home uninvited is not compatible with life.[/quote]
Could look at it the other way though. Its a pretty liberal site. Look how they titled it Vigilante which it fucking isn’t by any stretch of the imagination yet it seems like the vast majority of comments are in favor of the old dude.
Yeah I can’t even read the comments , ppl have such a fucked up way of thinking
And here I was here at T-Nation hoping that people here would support a WWII veteran shooting a heroin addict who broke into his house.
[quote]Peter Noto wrote:
And here I was here at T-Nation hoping that people here would support a WWII veteran shooting a heroin addict who broke into his house.[/quote]
O no I agree with this 92 year old he should have killed all of them
[quote]bdocksaints75 wrote:
[quote]Peter Noto wrote:
And here I was here at T-Nation hoping that people here would support a WWII veteran shooting a heroin addict who broke into his house.[/quote]
O no I agree with this 92 year old he should have killed all of them [/quote]
I think we all agree with the old guy. Not sure what this dude is reading.
Alright I must have misinterpreted. All is fair I did just come home from a back day haha. Or maybe I was still grumpy from reading all those comments on the other site saying that the old guy was an asshole.
Good on him, even more impressive that he stopped a intruder with a squirrel round like the .22.
Pisses me off almost every time one of these scumbags get shot people want to refer to them as a kid in order to sympathize with the victim. At 24 your not a kid, you know damn well what your doing and are well aware of the consequences of your actions.
So I take it a .22 isnt something thats going to take down an elephant.
[quote]Hell-Billy wrote:
Good on him, even more impressive that he stopped a intruder with a squirrel round like the .22.
Pisses me off almost every time one of these scumbags get shot people want to refer to them as a kid in order to sympathize with the victim. At 24 your not a kid, you know damn well what your doing and are well aware of the consequences of your actions.[/quote]
Excellent point. I missed that in my first reading of it. The journalist lets you know the mother understands that the kids got what they deserved on the one hand, but insidiously infantilizes the perpetrator and subtly transforms him into a kind of victim. The “just kids” angle is played up, while the “multiple felon heroin addict terrorizing an elderly vet, possibly multiple times” angle is downplayed. Meanwhile, yeah, the WWII vet becomes a “vigilante.”
George Orwell, here we are.
[quote]Swolegasm wrote:
So I take it a .22 isnt something thats going to take down an elephant.[/quote]
.22 cal is .22 inches.
Sounds like things ended about as well as they could. I hope the old guy is okay. I hope I’m never put into that situation. My thoughts and prayers go out to him.
Another example of the Greatest Generation taking care of business. People that just take action, not wait and expect someone else to do things for you. I like his answer on why he didn’t call 911. “Why,… you only have seconds, not hours”
Also I love how he refused to put his hands up when the cops showed up. Told them he’s Military and the owner of the property. Basically saying it’s his land and the cops are visitors that have to respect him and he has the right to invite in or not. Rather than just surrendering in and assuming the cops are above citizens, he’s pointing it out that they are there to serve the public and he’s not gonna submit when “he didn’t do anything wrong”. Kept talking to the cops to “calm them down”. I would shake his hand.
[quote]Swolegasm wrote:
So I take it a .22 isnt something thats going to take down an elephant.[/quote]
Anything less and he would have pointed at him and yelled “Pew! Pew!”
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Swolegasm wrote:
So I take it a .22 isnt something thats going to take down an elephant.[/quote]
Anything less and he would have pointed at him and yelled “Pew! Pew!”[/quote]
LOL!
Alex Supertramp killed a moose with a 22.
Anyone that thinks the old man was in the wrong is just a future victim.
Three break ins so far in the year…jeebuz America what kind of people y’all raising over there?
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
Three break ins so far in the year…jeebuz America what kind of people y’all raising over there?[/quote]
The elderly tend to make for very easy victims. Usually a combination of actually having some money, and being weak and/or fairly immobile. Not just burglaries or robberies, but also scams of all types.
While it happens (and it probably happens more frequently than I’d like to admit), I wouldn’t say this is even remotely representative of the kinds of people in this country. We just happen to have a media system that paints us as a bunch of murderous gun-toting hillbillies. I’ve known Canadians afraid to visit US cities for fear of getting shot in a drive-by.
There’s a lot of disconnect between media portrayal and reality here.