Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Be Careful Out There...

3 plead not guilty in deadly home invasion linked to internet ad

New York (CNN) -- Three men accused of killing a Washington state man in a home invasion after the victim posted an internet ad were arraigned Monday, with all three pleading not guilty.

Clabon Terrel Bernaird, 23; Kiyoshi A. Higashi, 22; and Joshua N. Reese, 20, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, robbery and assault, Pierce County, Washington, prosecutor Mark Lindquist said. If convicted, they face potential sentences of around 70 years in prison, Lindquist said.

Washington has the death penalty, either by lethal injection or hanging. It seems like this would be the perfect time for a necktie party. Here's what these pieces of shit did:

"Two people show up and act like a couple looking for a ring for the mother-in-law," Lindquist said. But once they entered the house, he said, the man posing as the husband pulled out a handgun.

The victim, his wife, and their sons, ages 14 and 10, were restrained with plastic handcuffs, Lindquist said. Two other suspects then entered the home. One pistol-whipped the older son, he said.

The father broke free and went to stop them from hurting his son, something any father would do. They shot him to death and beat the mother while she was on the floor. They murdered this man in cold blood for a thousand dollar ring in front of his children.

I take it back. Hanging is too good for them - this is a case where drawing and quartering would be more appropriate.

There's two lessons to be learned here. First of all, don't conduct transactions with strangers in your house. It's just a bad idea all around. If it's someone you don't know, someone you've never met before, why on earth would you let them know where you live and then let them inside your home? That's not condition white, that's condition opaque for crying out loud.

Secondly, carry your damn guns, even inside your own home. This story might have turned out very differently had Mr. Sanders been armed. Heck, we might be reading about him in the Dead Goblin Count rather than as a victim. It's certainly not his fault that the people who responded to his ad were scumbags who would kill a man in front of his family for some jewelry; however let his death serve as a warning to the rest of us: You are never truly safe, not even in your own home.

I'll take my 12 ounces of protection, thank you.

That is all.

6 comments:

Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...

"[C]arry your damn guns, even inside your own home."

Even if you don't normally carry in your home, you bloody well better carry if you're inviting strangers in!

TOTWTYTR said...

This is why I don't do any sort of business transaction with strangers in my home. Washington (the state) has pretty liberal gun laws for a liberal state. Too bad the victim didn't take advantage of them.

Mad Saint Jack said...

8 divided by 3 is one of the reasons I'm not a big 1911 fan.

Baker M. Romeo said...

Flay the savages alive, and nail them to every telephone pole in town, one piece at a time.

Weer'd Beard said...

"8 divided by 3 is one of the reasons I'm not a big 1911 fan."

The super-thin magazines that make it easy to carry two or more on your person, along with the ease of carrying a gun that's under an inch thick in most locations is why I'm a huge fan.

Also while people might mumble about the sound of a 12 gauge slide being pumped, or the rattling rack of an AK, or the sound of a heavy 1911 slide hitting its stop then ramming the top round off a mag home causing goblins to loose bowel control and their balls a shrinkin'

I will say that putting a tight pair of 0.452" holes in a Goblin's wishbone, to the soundtrack of .45 ACP +P muzzle blast very well might do just that to all but the most hardened criminals.

And even if you did this from a standard 7-round GI mag fed into an empty gun, you'll still have enough for two more "encore performances"

Mad Saint Jack said...

Weer'd- every thing you say is true.

But if I'm reaching for more ammo I would rather reach for 17 more.

Hell, I've been toying with a 33rd mag carried IWB in a soft eye glasses case.

(I kinda like it.)