Tables Turned...Robbery Target Arrested

[DMF]

I always taught officers that a thrown knife represented danger of death or serious bodily injury for defensive shooting purposes, but went on to tell them I'd never heard of anyone ever actually being killed with a thrown knife. I stand corrected!

There's a book out with accounts of actual lethal force incidents involving cops called "Into the Kill Zone." One of the stories involves a lady on DV call who threw a knife at a cop (IIRC it was 30 or 40 feet), and hit him in the head, with the knife sticking straight into his forehead. He lived, but the docs told him if the knife had penetrated another 1/16th of an inch he would have likely died or suffered permanent disability. Later in his career he killed a male suspect on a DV call that brought out a knife.

 

[fjolnirsson]

Attempted theft is not a capital offence.

Imo, auto theft should be a capital crime, ala horse thievery. In today's world, if you take a man's car, you've harmed his livelihood, and taken money from the mouth's of his children.
Was it right? Not if you base what's "right" on the law. Morally, yes. If I catch a man trying to steal a piece of my life from me, I'll be hard pressed to make the "right" decision, and not shoot him. Criminals, in all cases, should be in fear for their lives from honest citizens. Instead, we have what is referred to as the "criminal justice system". Know why it's called that? Because the criminals get the "justice". Not the citizens.

 

[Hardtarget]

It really steams me when the comment is "its only property" comes up. To get that property you trade off a good ammount of your life. I've never gotten a check in the mail just because I needed it. My work is more than 40 hours per week...and the boss expects me to be there. Little over a year ago a local punk decided he wanted the radio out of my truck so he broke a window and stole a $150 radio. Problem is the window is $700!Tell me the punk didn't deserve to be shot. So the guy threw a knife...so the thief died...so what. He will not be missed by his victims. He chose the way to live his life...probably knew he would die if he didn't change...it just caught up with him.
Mark.

 

[zahc]

Another of the opinion that, if the story is as presented, the attempted robber got what he deserved. No sympathy.

Also agree it was a dumb thing to do legally and I don't like that aspect of the legal system so much. If people were allowed to, heaven forbid, use force to protect the stuff that is theirs, maybe this guy wouldn't have tried to steal the car, he would still be alive, and everything would be grand.

 

[Warren]

I would also apply the same standard to taggers.

 

[zahc]

Do you mean graffiti artists? I agree. There wouldn't me as much graffiti if that was the case would there? What disadvantage would there be to that?

An armed society is a polite society.