Originally Posted by
MNBikeguy
I'm trying to wrap my head around your statement, and am getting a headache.
If someone "shoots someone in defense of his life", (why not just call it killing someone) how do you then argue a "case of him just pedaling along and getting jumped."
You then say he "likely will not be charged." Likely??
Are you willing to be charged with manslaughter for killing someone just interested in your backpack?
Are you able to prove your life was in danger?
Is it worth the risk?
The testosterone increases exponentially on this subject as the thread lengthens. The recommendations for automatic rifles clipped to your frame usually starts around page 5. By then, it's shoot any bas**rd that gets in your way!
The best advice here has been post #2.
You live in Murderapolis. Why don't you Google the name "Mark Loesch" and get back to me? Wait, let me do it for you.
http://www.startribune.com/local/11557486.html
Police continued their investigation Saturday into the violent death of a man who had been riding his bicycle in south Minneapolis.
Mark Loesch, 41, of Minneapolis, died of multiple blunt-force head impacts, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's office said Saturday. His death was ruled a homicide.
Loesch went for a ride after the 10 p.m. news Wednesday but never returned.
He was found barely breathing on a lawn on the 3700 block of Elliot Avenue S. -- less than 1.5 miles from his home -- about 7 a.m. Thursday. He died before paramedics arrived. His bike was nearby; his wallet and cell phone had been left at home.
Loesch, married 16 years, was a father of four. He worked as an information-technology consultant and was an avid cyclist. He might have been going to show a new tire he put on his rebuilt bicycle to a friend.
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Just what makes you think all crime is non-violent? The cyclist in the above story---IN YOUR TOWN---was attacked and murdered for no good reason. They didn't steal his bike. They didn't take his wallet. They just killed him. Beat him to death. I'm sure you'll respond with the same BS line---"Oh, they probably attacked him from the side and knocked him off his bike." But what if they didn't? What if his assailants just cornered him and THEN beat him to death? Should he have been riding through a bad neighborhood in the middle of the night? Absolutely not. But sometimes people don't have good sense. Sometimes people are naive. But just because someone does something naive doesn't mean he should be beaten to death for it, or robbed of his possessions.
Why do you think all robbery crimes are just simple stickups? You think today's class of criminal is just going to walk up. say "Give me your bike/backpack!" and run away? No. The trend now is to beat the hell out of you even if you meekly comply. Seriously. I know you've heard of the Mark Loesch case but still you insist on clinging to your Pollyannaish ideas. Why? I'm not telling you to carry a weapon. I'm just don't understand how something horrible can happen in YOUR TOWN and you still refuse to believe it CAN happen?