Trick-or-treater, 12, shot to death, police say

[ryanmercer]

SUMTER, South Carolina (AP) -- An ex-convict who said he thought he was being robbed gunned down a 12-year-old trick-or-treater, spraying nearly 30 rounds with an assault rifle from inside his home after hearing a knock on the door, police said Saturday.

Trick-or-treater, 12, shot to death, police say - CNN.com

 

[Crystalship1]

SUMTER, South Carolina (AP) -- An ex-convict who said he thought he was being robbed gunned down a 12-year-old trick-or-treater, spraying nearly 30 rounds with an assault rifle from inside his home after hearing a knock on the door, police said Saturday.

Trick-or-treater, 12, shot to death, police say - CNN.com

Mistake # 1 - Letting this piece of human waste out of prison!!!!

 

[Hiram Abiff]

The gun banners will have a field day with this one!!!

 

[slacker]

Who starts blasting away at their front door just because someone knocked? WTF is wrong with people?

 

[Mr.Hoppes]

Who starts blasting away at their front door just because someone knocked? WTF is wrong with people?

Can you say paranoid much? Prisions don't fix people, they just detain them for the duration and the release them on society. I make no case for prisioner rights or such for they have better health care than our veterans and more ameneties than most of us can afford. Problem is they learn the wrong things in prision. Then they are realeased and we wonder why they repeat or worsen thier crimes. Longer supervised probations that are actually supervised, and programs to help them fit into society would be benifical for society as well as the prisioner. I do believe in life = life not X number of years and death=death not 30 yrs of appeals. Swift Justice. Not lip service justice but real justice.

 

[Crystalship1]

Who starts blasting away at their front door just because someone knocked? WTF is wrong with people?

Per the article: A convicted murderer who (most likely) was dealing and probably doing drugs.

Again..... the failure here was a system that let this vermin out of prison in any condition other than having a toe-tag.

 

[Doug]

Wait a minute... you wouldn't be an ex-convict unless you had been convicted of a felony. I thought convicted felons were not allowed to have firearms.
How is it possible that he got a gun? Do you suppose he (GASP) Broke The Law??!?

Seriously, our prayers and condolences to the family of this young man.

Doug

 

[ryanmercer]

Can you say paranoid much? Prisions don't fix people, they just detain them for the duration and the release them on society. I make no case for prisioner rights or such for they have better health care than our veterans and more ameneties than most of us can afford. Problem is they learn the wrong things in prision. Then they are realeased and we wonder why they repeat or worsen thier crimes. Longer supervised probations that are actually supervised, and programs to help them fit into society would be benifical for society as well as the prisioner. I do believe in life = life not X number of years and death=death not 30 yrs of appeals. Swift Justice. Not lip service justice but real justice.

I would love to say I do too, but lately they keep finding out that more and more people they executed, were in fact innocent thanks to advances in DNA gathering techniques. I wouldn't want that on my conscience.

 

[Cwood]

Wait a minute... you wouldn't be an ex-convict unless you had been convicted of a felony. I thought convicted felons were not allowed to have firearms.
How is it possible that he got a gun? Do you suppose he (GASP) Broke The Law??!?

Seriously, our prayers and condolences to the family of this young man.

Doug

Yet they do not mention any weapon charges against him

 

[Dogman]

Mistake # 1 - Letting this piece of human waste out of prison!!!!

 

[96harley]

Maybe he only had one strike to go. Then he could be tossed out of the society game.

Now the evil black rifles and their law abiding owners will suffer because the convicted murderer probably got his rifle from a convicted thief who is also out of prison due to overcrowding from the guys on death row.

 

[Dogman]

Here's a perfect example that the bad guys can get guns if they want!

 

[Marc]

Mistake # 1 - Letting this piece of human waste out of prison!!!!

mistake #2 letting an x con possess a gun

 

[MinuteManMike]

I don't think him being an ex-con should matter. He's obviously a total loon and a waste of oxygen.

And my NRA course instructor told us of a COP that did the same thing to someone knocking on his front door. I believe he said that was here in Indiana and the cop didn't even go to jail. So it's not just paranoid drug dealers.

 

[Marc]

i guess it just people like Dale Gribble off of king of the hill

 

[ryanmercer]

i guess it just people like Dale Gribble off of king of the hill

Heh.