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Skidmark sends this link which references this "article" about recent defensive shootings in the Pacific NW. The author of this article is bemoaning the recent spate of Dead Goblin additions, lionizing the recently-reduced-to-room-temperature home invaders as a "loving daddy" and "good man to his family". Were they being loving when they kicked in the door to someone else's home, one wonders? Were they a "good man" when they threatened a homeowner with a blunt object?

The piece is an obvious hit on the "Stand your ground" laws, with the now obligatory reference to poor Trayvon Martin, brutally murdered in cold blood as he delivered medicine to sick orphans by a white supremacist Nazi on his way to a Klan rally (the latter may be my inference, he may have been on his way to an Aryan Nation rally instead). There's even the insanity of "why didn't the homeowner shoot to wound" the high-on-cocaine home invader who broke into a couple's home and advanced on their barricaded position despite being told they were armed. Because when a drug-crazed madman is kicking in your door, it's always better to inflict minor wounds on them first.

You see, in the writer's world, criminals are poor misunderstood rabbits in need of protection from evil gun owners. Powerful force fields - perhaps exuding from the satanic firearms themselves - pull these young altarboys in from the street despite their frantic scrambling so that homeowners can murder them for sport. These poor young men were all standing around, minding their own business, when all of a sudden this evil assault Glock revolver ran up to them, spiked drugs into their system, and then dragged them into the home of a racist to be killed.

It's gotta be tough for these rabbit people who want nothing more than to disarm all gun owners. They want every gun owner to be Travis Bickle, a deranged vigilante out to inflict violence, mayhem, and death against any and all who may have wronged them. "Death Wish" is not a cinematic response to out-of-control crime but a documentary into the armed homeowner. Going out in the street and shooting purse snatchers in the back is par for the course in their world, something that all gun owners would like to engage in once the "Stand your ground" laws make it to their corner of the world.

I thought, briefly, about rebutting the author's points. I've brought up the idea that we don't have an "intent-o-meter" that helps us decipher whether the young person in our home who doesn't belong there is a violent criminal hoping to slaughter us in our sleep or just a poor misguided drunkard whose bacchanalian revelry lead him to the wrong house. But it's obvious that this author has his mind made up, facts be damned, and all of those evil racist gunowners are just looking to shoot themselves some poor brown people. Even if it means going out at night with a stack of $50 bills and luring innocent young men into their homes to do it.

All I know is that I have no interest in inhabiting this writer's world, where criminals are the poor victims and the homeowners are mystically at fault.

That is all.