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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of people lamenting the racism of the homeowner hete, but I guarantee that not a single one of the white or Asian people living in a wealthy DC suburb would have opened the door if they saw Ralph Yarl on the other side of it. Not one of you would have. You lament the racism but you are as racist as this homeowner was.[/quote]

I'm betting that Yarl would have preferred an unopened door to being shot over. Your statement makes no sense.[/quote]

+1. I'd advise my elderly parents to not open the door to a stranger. It wouldn't occur to me to advise them to shoot the person for ringing the doorbell.

This poster is being disingenuous to pretend the guy had only one option. And the sick thing is, so many people especially gun nuts, will actually take this argument and run with it.

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Sure, let’s play that out:  No one answers the door.  
Kid calls his mom and says ‘mom no one answering door.’
She says ‘that’s weird are you at the house with the concrete steps?’
 He says ‘no…wait what’s that address again?’  He gets back in his car and finds the right house.

This is normal life.  This is every other country.  This is what everyone should expect to happen.  Instead we are all now living in fear of guns around every corner.  We need a ‘the only thing we have to fear is fear itself’ moment from our leadership to get this gun crisis under control.  We are living in absurdity. [/quote]

+1. Agreed. [/quote]

I am not saying the shooter had only one option. But he claims that the victim was trying to open his door. The victim had left his cell phone at home. I don’t have a gun and would never fire a shot in this situation. I would, however, be terrified if someone was trying to open my door late at night. We recently had a home invasion/murder in our neighborhood and it puts you on edge.
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What is your point in relation to the story? Yes we understand that people don't want to answer the door to strangers. [/quote]

Some idiot seems to be trying to justify a guy with the gun putting two bullets in the head of a teenager trying to pick up his younger siblings from a play date.  Doesn’t seem to meet the standards for deadly force.  [/quote]

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