92 YO Man Shoots Home Invader

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[quote]LoRez wrote:

[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.[/quote]

It was more of light-hearted jab. I’ve been to California before, really liked it and you’re right most people are awesome. That’s not sure to say I didn’t see some shit - nearly got mugged by these Mexican thugs for making eye contact with them. Although I think were just all-talk because they started talking shit and creeping forward but never engaged.

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[quote]Cortes wrote:

[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.

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I just wonder at what point these “kids” cease to be kids in the minds of journalists. Maybe its kind of like how every gang banger who gets justifiably killed was a “good student” and “star athlete”, like that somehow negates the fact that they intended to harm someone else.

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[quote]Hell-Billy wrote:

[quote]Cortes wrote:

[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.

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I just wonder at what point these “kids” cease to be kids in the minds of journalists.

Maybe its kind of like how every gang banger who gets justifiably killed was a “good student” and “star athlete”, like that somehow negates the fact that they intended to harm someone else.
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I believe they have an algorithm that determines this. In this case it went something like:

Is victim of vigilante justice old enough to grow a beard?
If no, apply “just a confused kid.”
If yes, proceed to next question.

Does victim of vigilante justice have a mother?
If yes, apply “just a little boy who got mixed up with the wrong crowd” {presumably composed of other “little boys” none of whom is individually culpable for anything, ever}
If no, proceed to next question.

Has victim completed the 6th grade?
If yes, apply “good student.”
If no proceed to the next question.

Has victim ever participated in any sport, anywhere, ever? Consider neighborhood games of pick-up football, stick ball, ability to ride a bicycle, throwing rocks at cats, and gang intimidation and marauding as “sports” and apply, “star athlete.”

Now we’ll see if FightinIrish is reading…haha.

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[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:

[quote]LoRez wrote:

[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.[/quote]

It was more of light-hearted jab. I’ve been to California before, really liked it and you’re right most people are awesome. That’s not sure to say I didn’t see some shit - nearly got mugged by these Mexican thugs for making eye contact with them. Although I think were just all-talk because they started talking shit and creeping forward but never engaged.
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Lol, because that story doesn’t perpetuate any stereotypes either…

Sounds like you enjoyed your visit though.

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[quote]LoRez wrote:

[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:

[quote]LoRez wrote:

[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.[/quote]

It was more of light-hearted jab. I’ve been to California before, really liked it and you’re right most people are awesome. That’s not sure to say I didn’t see some shit - nearly got mugged by these Mexican thugs for making eye contact with them. Although I think were just all-talk because they started talking shit and creeping forward but never engaged.
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Lol, because that story doesn’t perpetuate any stereotypes either…

Sounds like you enjoyed your visit though.[/quote]

Sadly, I don’t have any trouble believing his story is the truth.

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[quote]on edge wrote:

[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.[/quote]

All I have to say to this is that clobbering a moose to death with a rifle is unsportsmanlike conduct.

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[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]
As far as the comments, consider the source. Sympathetic to the “kids” who had heroin issues. Whatever. Here in Kennesaw, Georgia, it is the law for a household to have a firearm. It has never really been enforced, but it is a great reputation to have. 30 years and still standing, the law is still on the books, and wager to say that many of the citizens here comply.

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[quote]BennyHayes wrote:

[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]
As far as the comments, consider the source. Sympathetic to the “kids” who had heroin issues. Whatever. Here in Kennesaw, Georgia, it is the law for a household to have a firearm. It has never really been enforced, but it is a great reputation to have. 30 years and still standing, the law is still on the books, and wager to say that many of the citizens here comply. [/quote]
The Wild East.

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[quote]Cortes wrote:
Nice to read some good news for a change.

With a .22 rifle, no less! Or, should I say, no more![/quote]

If the gun he is holding in he interview is what he used, it looks more like a shotgun than a 22. More likely a 20 gauge than a 22, but I can’t imagine a journalist getting their facts wrong.

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[quote]Testy1 wrote:

[quote]Cortes wrote:
Nice to read some good news for a change.

With a .22 rifle, no less! Or, should I say, no more![/quote]

If the gun he is holding in he interview is what he used, it looks more like a shotgun than a 22. More likely a 20 gauge than a 22, but I can’t imagine a journalist getting their facts wrong.[/quote]

I completely agree with you that a journalist screwing up the caliber/name/type of weapon would not be any kind of surprise, but when I was a kid I used to hunt deer with my dad and he had me using an old Remington Field Master .22, I believe, that looked very much like this. The weapon in the picture in the article does appear to have a larger barrel and could be a shotgun, but it does look a whole lot like this gun, to me, too.

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The rifle pictured above is pump-action, btw.

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[quote]Cortes wrote:

[quote]LoRez wrote:

[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:

[quote]LoRez wrote:

[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.[/quote]

It was more of light-hearted jab. I’ve been to California before, really liked it and you’re right most people are awesome. That’s not sure to say I didn’t see some shit - nearly got mugged by these Mexican thugs for making eye contact with them. Although I think were just all-talk because they started talking shit and creeping forward but never engaged.
[/quote]

Lol, because that story doesn’t perpetuate any stereotypes either…

Sounds like you enjoyed your visit though.[/quote]

Sadly, I don’t have any trouble believing his story is the truth. [/quote]

Same here. For every stereotype, there are plenty of people who fit it (and plenty who don’t.)

I haven’t been “nearly mugged” but I’ve been in similar situations, and seen the same thing more than once. And yes, they happened to be Mexican.

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[quote]Cortes wrote:

[quote]Testy1 wrote:

[quote]Cortes wrote:
Nice to read some good news for a change.

With a .22 rifle, no less! Or, should I say, no more![/quote]

If the gun he is holding in he interview is what he used, it looks more like a shotgun than a 22. More likely a 20 gauge than a 22, but I can’t imagine a journalist getting their facts wrong.[/quote]

I completely agree with you that a journalist screwing up the caliber/name/type of weapon would not be any kind of surprise, but when I was a kid I used to hunt deer with my dad and he had me using an old Remington Field Master .22, I believe, that looked very much like this. The weapon in the picture in the article does appear to have a larger barrel and could be a shotgun, but it does look a whole lot like this gun, to me, too.

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You hunted deer with a .22? Yes it could be a rifle, although the barrel looks very heavy for a 22. Looks like a single shot shotgun to me.

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Seemed relevant:

http://www.theonion.com/video/little-boy-heroically-shoots-mutilates-burglar,14370/

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[quote]Testy1 wrote:

[quote]Cortes wrote:

[quote]Testy1 wrote:

[quote]Cortes wrote:
Nice to read some good news for a change.

With a .22 rifle, no less! Or, should I say, no more![/quote]

If the gun he is holding in he interview is what he used, it looks more like a shotgun than a 22. More likely a 20 gauge than a 22, but I can’t imagine a journalist getting their facts wrong.[/quote]

I completely agree with you that a journalist screwing up the caliber/name/type of weapon would not be any kind of surprise, but when I was a kid I used to hunt deer with my dad and he had me using an old Remington Field Master .22, I believe, that looked very much like this. The weapon in the picture in the article does appear to have a larger barrel and could be a shotgun, but it does look a whole lot like this gun, to me, too.

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You hunted deer with a .22? Yes it could be a rifle, although the barrel looks very heavy for a 22. Looks like a single shot shotgun to me.[/quote]

I was probably 7 years old at the time. It was the only thing that wouldn’t kick me halfway back to the edge of the deer lease. I don’t think I actually hit anything with it, but I did shoot it.

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[quote]Cortes wrote:

[quote]Testy1 wrote:

[quote]Cortes wrote:

[quote]Testy1 wrote:

[quote]Cortes wrote:
Nice to read some good news for a change.

With a .22 rifle, no less! Or, should I say, no more![/quote]

If the gun he is holding in he interview is what he used, it looks more like a shotgun than a 22. More likely a 20 gauge than a 22, but I can’t imagine a journalist getting their facts wrong.[/quote]

I completely agree with you that a journalist screwing up the caliber/name/type of weapon would not be any kind of surprise, but when I was a kid I used to hunt deer with my dad and he had me using an old Remington Field Master .22, I believe, that looked very much like this. The weapon in the picture in the article does appear to have a larger barrel and could be a shotgun, but it does look a whole lot like this gun, to me, too.

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You hunted deer with a .22? Yes it could be a rifle, although the barrel looks very heavy for a 22. Looks like a single shot shotgun to me.[/quote]

I was probably 7 years old at the time. It was the only thing that wouldn’t kick me halfway back to the edge of the deer lease. I don’t think I actually hit anything with it, but I did shoot it.
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got it.

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[quote]Cortes wrote:
The weapon in the picture in the article does appear to have a larger barrel and could be a shotgun, but it does look a whole lot like this gun, to me, too.

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The old man obviously is holding an assault rifle. I definitely see black on it and it has a stock.

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And from the comments," “He was waiting for the three intruders in a chair across the room.”

Sounds a bit like premeditation. I wonder if he gave the kids a chance to GTFO or if he just fired away as soon as they walked upstairs."

Premediation, really? The guy was probably trying to enjoy a TV dinner and watch an old episode of The Dinah Shore Show and this malakas thinks it’s premeditated.