With impulse control that poor, it?s hard to believe Jaylen Brown?s father has made it this far without ending up dead or behind bars.
From the sounds of it, his behavior was completely unhinged, he belongs in prison for good. It?s a shame there wasn?t someone armed on the scene to stop him in the act; it could have prevented life-threatening, life-altering injuries, and spared taxpayers the financial burden.
hmmmmm... "he belongs in prison for good" coupled with "spared taxpayers the financial burden" if dead. a bit challenging to follow this logic.
also, "it's a shame there wasn't someone armed", but there was someone armed....the dad. or do you mean jaylen's dad should have been carrying a gun? and if you do, how does people using guns reduce "life-threatening...injuries"?
last puzzlement..."belongs in prison for good" to me validates the value of a trial by jury where evidence and law take precedent over hot takes for deciding people's fates.
I assumed he meant too bad there wasn?t someone else there w a gun to dole out vigilante justice. Which also assumes that the ?good guy w a gun? doesn?t also take out innocent bystanders and/or create a larger scale conflict w more injuries.
Let the justice system do its job, appears to be enough witnesses and evidence. Happy to have my tax money take a criminal of the street without risking unnecessary lives/damage.
I doubt the unarmed guy who just got gutted like Rinaldo Pazzi was thinking, ?Let?s just let the justice system handle this.? More likely, he was praying someone would step in and stop it
It's a little funny that a thread that could have zero disagreement now teeters on an old political battleground. We could suffice to say that two men escalated a car ding, one went berzerk and nearly (may have) killed the other. The crazy man committed a horrifically vile and violent act that no one with any degree of sanity would defend, and no one even with the most bleeding of hearts would want to see this man free for a very long time. Of course there may be details we don't know that could change that picture to some extent, but that certainly seems doubtful.
So instead of leaving it be, we end up with a hypothetical that nags at our political instincts and tendencies. But couldn't we lay out two hypothetical that, were either to occur, would be spoken of as 'evidence' for one side or the other for years to come? Let's play that out:
Hypothetical #1: A legal gun-carrying citizen happens to be in the area at the moment Marcellus Brown brandishes his knife. The citizen says "hold it right there" but Brown lunges for the victim. When he does, the good guy with the gun shoots him dead. No trial; no taxpayer expense. Citizen X is a hero and becomes 'good guy with a gun' evidence for all those who believe our streets are safer with
more people legally carrying guns.
Hypothetical #2: A legal gun-carrying citizen happens to be in the area at the moment Marcellus Brown brandishes his knife. The citizens says "hold it right there" but Brown lunges for the victim. When he does, the citizen, who is human and is panicked, fires two shots, one hits the man Brown is in the process of knifing, and one hits a bystander. The good guy with a gun has potentially killed two people and lord only know what taxpayer expense will be needed to iron out this mess. Citizen Y becomes evidence for anti-gun activists that our streets are safer with
fewer people carrying guns.
I think we're better off just agreeing that two men became enraged by an incident that should have been handled calmly, but escalated to the point where they were going to fight for some inane proof of male toughness, and one of the two lost any ability to think or contain his impulses and viciously attacked the other to the point of critical injury and possibly death. Brown should be off the street and he should stand trial. There's no need for hypotheticals - liberals and conservatives can agree on this one.
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