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Martin was jailed for shooting a child in the back after he had left his property.
16 is a young adult. Barras was a violent criminal going around committing home invasions as an accomplace of two grown men in their thirties. He was not a child engaged in a childs activites. He was a thug going around committing thuggery with grown men. Barras was a member of a gang that had terrorized Martin AND his neighbors by committing multiple acts of home invasion and burlgary.
Martin and his neighbors had filed numerous reports with the police who for some reason did nothing about the gang until after someone shot two of them and put them out of business. Then what the police did was go after the man who put the gang out of business.
Martin shot both of them inside his isolated farmhouse. Martin certainly did not shoot them when they were off of his property. Barras body was found ON Martins property where his accomplace left him.
He was shot in the back as he was running away. That was why Martin ended up in jail. Clearly an example of someone with a gun but not the training or mental stability to know when not to pull the trigger. A bit similar to your granny with a shotgun idea. What happens when she accidentally blasts the paperboy because he looks suspicious?
Barras and Fereas were shot inside Martin’s house. The only reason why they might have been trying to make a getaway is because Martin had a gun. If Martin hadn’t had a gun the incident might very well have had a different outcome with Martin dead and his attackers still being portrayed as poor lovable lads who deserved to be given light treatment.
Oh there are a whole lot of reaons why Martin ended up in jail that go far beyond any minor wrong doing by Martin. Martin was violently assaulted in his home with noone to help him. The real issue is despite a lack of help Martin managed to defend himself by using an appropriate tool of self defense. Martin took care of himself when the government refused to help. That is why Martin was put in jail because he showed up the government.
Again you have resported to your bullshit rhetoric of using over the top fantasies. I know quite a few old grannys who have shotguns who have not blasted the paperboy because he looked suspicious. But just humour ou for a moment, if the paperboy has kicked granny’s front door down in the middle of the night and forcibly entered her home then she shoots him that is his fault.
So shooting an unarmed child in the back is a minor wrongdoing in your eyes. Not really a lot of point arguing with you past that statement.[/quote]
16 is a young adult. His accomplace was a 30 year old grown man. How the hell do you expect Martin in the heat of the moment to have accurately deduced Barras age? I feel bad for a 16 year old getting shot but home invasion is a serious violent crime. Barras and Fereas were committing a violent crime and put Martin in the position of having only a moment to decide how to respond, it is totally unreasonable to class Barras as a child under those circumstances. You don’t want to argue it because you know I am right.
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Martin was jailed because he broke the law. I have very little sympathy for the kid that got shot, he should not have been there to be shot however Martin was an unstable guy who broke the law.
His defence at the retrial was based around how mentally unstable he was, that is hardly someone I would be handing a gun to.[/quote]
You are as disingenuous as ever. Martin was forced into claiming he was unstable because the legal system was unfairly stacked against him because it makes no provision for self defense. A sanity plea is the defense he could use.