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Old Jul 6th 2017, 2:27 pm
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Originally Posted by caretaker
No charges makes him look guilty? ..... I'll add that to the long list of things I don't understand.
Maybe it's just my British perspective, that in the absence of a clear explanation to the contrary, if person A shoots person B then the likelihood is that person A commuted a crime. "No charges" seemed, again from my perspective, to contain a note of surprise.

But now you have brought this to my attention, and I have put on my stars and stripes baseball cap, I can see a different perspective.
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I'm not going to watch it again to count, but there were a lot of shots fired there, and the guy was only hit 4 times. We don't hear that sort of shooting in my neighbourhood even when the gangsters are going at it.
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Old Jul 6th 2017, 3:33 pm
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I'm not going to watch it again to count, but there were a lot of shots fired there, and the guy was only hit 4 times. We don't hear that sort of shooting in my neighbourhood even when the gangsters are going at it.
An ex-colleague of mine in London who served in the army in a unit of trained marksman, told me that in a stress/combat situation it was unlikely that a trained marksman using a pistol would hit a person at a distance of 30 feet. It is therefore interesting that the fireman found his target four times; I presume he was closer than 30ft.
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An ex-colleague of mine in London who served in the army in a unit of trained marksman, told me that in a stress/combat situation it was unlikely that a trained marksman using a pistol would hit a person at a distance of 30 feet. It is therefore interesting that the fireman found his target four times; I presume he was closer than 30ft.
Did you watch the video? Right at the end there, where he walks up and shoots down at him a few more times.... I'm assuming he kept firing until Weigel let go of his own pistol, (that would be the sucking chest wound part).
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Did you watch the video? ....
Not yet - I choose not to do so unless I have wifi access. .... I also tend not to watch gruesome videos, and I am still on the fence about this one. I might watch it when I get home.
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I wonder if this new anti gun law would have stopped something like this. Apparently if you don't like your neighbor having guns, you can complain and say they are an at risk person.

Oregon gun-control bill gets second life | KGW.com
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I am still on the fence
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I wonder if this new anti gun law would have stopped something like this. Apparently if you don't like your neighbor having guns, you can complain and say they are an at risk person.

Oregon gun-control bill gets second life | KGW.com
That could bring back a Republican majority next election.Oregon may indeed be reliably blue, but not that blue.
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OMG! "WTF" doesn't even begin to describe this twisted, macabre tale. .... Don't read if you're squeamish - seriously!
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OMG! "WTF" doesn't even begin to describe this twisted, macabre tale. .... Don't read if you're squeamish - seriously!
Just say no kids.
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OMG! "WTF" doesn't even begin to describe this twisted, macabre tale. .... Don't read if you're squeamish - seriously!
Jesus, that's a good old fashioned WTF right there ...
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OMG! "WTF" doesn't even begin to describe this twisted, macabre tale. .... Don't read if you're squeamish - seriously!
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Jesus, that's a good old fashioned WTF right there ...
Freedom, innit.
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Freedom, innit.
I think he might also be just a little bit mental too.

That article read like a movie plot though, didn't it?
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Kids with guns imagine they've been wronged, kill everybody, try to hide the bodies... it's more common than you'd think. Blame Fargo for setting the tone.
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That article read like a movie plot though, didn't it?
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