Don’t want to get shot, don’t rob people
So, some idiot went and robbed a Pizza Hut. He was shot and killed by an employee. I understand that the parents would be upset but their reaction is, frankly, pathetic. And includes lines like:
If there was to be a death, it was not the place of the employee at Pizza Hut. That is the place of law enforcement,
I think their “place” is to arrest and prosecute.
Why in the hell did this guy have a gun?
To shoot people like your son who are threatening lives of people.
This wasnt a body shot. This was a head shot. My son was shot in the left side of his head just behind his ear. A head shot is personal
A shot to stop is a shot to stop.
Even a criminal has a right, to a degree
Not to threaten people with force for money.
November 6th, 2016 at 4:11 pm
This is what a criminal class looks like: indignation at their criminal relative suffering consequences of his action.
November 6th, 2016 at 10:36 pm
@SPQR, very well said!
November 6th, 2016 at 11:45 pm
“Even a criminal has a right, to a degree”
Well, at least she agrees that her son was a criminal.
November 7th, 2016 at 4:23 am
Somehow I doubt these parents would be nodding sagely, telling us that “it is the place of law enforcement” to shoot their son if that was what actually happened…
November 7th, 2016 at 9:37 am
I see a trend with all of these dead goblins. Their parents, as far as I’ve seen and can recall, never share a last name. To me that means it’s very likely that the dad either wasn’t consistently in the home or otherwise a part of their son’s life, if at all.
November 7th, 2016 at 12:45 pm
It looks like the parents are trying to set up a civil claim against Pizza Hut. And they’re right about one thing: When someone points a gun at someone else during an armed robbery, it is definitely personal.
November 7th, 2016 at 2:33 pm
Just follow the money, and everything they’re saying makes perfect sense. Pizza Hut has some money. They want it.
So either their son gets the money his way, or the parents and lawyers get it their way. It’s robbery either way.
November 7th, 2016 at 10:07 pm
@Lyle, well of course, if Pizza Hut had not there, this misfortunate perp couldn’t have attempted an armed robbery there. The parents need to also sue the gun maker for putting the gun in his “wrong hand”.
November 7th, 2016 at 11:38 pm
It’s called winning the ghetto lottery. Pizza Hut might actually pay them nuisance value (less than it would cost them in lawyers). Like the homeowners association gave Trayvon Martin’s gene donors. More than they would have ever seen from their little thug.
November 8th, 2016 at 7:59 am
How would you feel if that was your son? I’m not saying they are correct, just that they are probably very very sad right now, and that this is a classic defense mechanism people use when faced with a situation of such enormity.
November 8th, 2016 at 11:52 am
Publius, if one of my sons died like that, I’d be too embarrassed to speak in public, knowing I’d failed as a parent.
November 8th, 2016 at 1:38 pm
It’s not worth getting upset at the response of parents after something like this. There is no handbook for grief. They are trying to wrap their heads around it and looking for anyone to blame but themselves or their son. I’d probably do the same thing.
November 9th, 2016 at 4:05 pm
Bad guys=0 society=1 Big moma…big dada….got anymore at home you can send out to meet they ancestors?