"HeyBub" wrote in
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Han wrote:

I'm a liberal. I am in favor of registration of firearms, and
licensing people for the use of them.

This lady did the right thing, and (I believe) has the 911 tapes to
prove it. Because she had a baby, and was in her home, she had and
has the right to defend herself against a perp like this. While it
must be traumatic to know she killed a human being, that human being
didn't live according to the rules. End of story. Kudos to the lady
and I hope she can get on with her life as best she can as soon as
she can.

Then live with the fact that in some benighted (i.e., liberal)
jurisdictions, she did NOT have the right to take a human life unless
she was certain her life was in danger (and maybe not even then). She
would not be allowed to presume an imminent threat to her life by the
actions of the squint. Unless he said "I'm going to kill you," he
could just as easily been inclined to merely rape her. She didn't
know, hence she was guilty of at least manslaughter.

I must admit that I'm not sure whether she or her baby was indeed under
real imminent threat of being harmed, and I did live in Mass. when there
was a case of a woman fleeing into her basement during a home invasion,
and killing the guy who ccame down after her. She was acquitted, I
believe, because there was no secondary exit through which she could have
fled. Had there been another exit from the basement, she should have
used that.

What's been overlooked in this sorry episode is that she was on the
'phone to 911 for 21 minutes. I can't imagine any urban jurisdiction
where it would take the cops more than five minutes to respond to a
"home invasion in progress" call.

Not sure where she was in relation to emergency services, or how rural
and diispersed the area is, but that seems indeed a bit strange. When I
broke my arm on July 4th a few years back, police and ambulance were in
my back yard in minutes.

I take that back. There have been several reports of UK ambulance
drivers declining to respond to an emergency call because they were on
break.

There have been strange things like that in NY City as well, I think
(emphasis), but they are not really tolerated, nor should they. On the
other hand, an acquaintance spend almost 24 hrs in a corridor in the ER
area of New York Hospital after a suspected heart attack (wasn't a heart
attack, but he still smokes).

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Best regards
Han
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