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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My heart is broken for this young boy.  He will never be the same child after this incident.  No money in the world can repair the emotional damage.  I  hope that he has loving family and friends around him to support him through this tragedy and that he receives professional help as well.  He deserves everything good coming to him.

I also hope the man who did this gets punished to the full extend of the law.  In my eyes, this is attempted murder and he should be locked up in federal prison for the rest of his life even if he lives just another few months.  What a horrible person to do such a thing.  I don't know what it is going to take, but the gun issue needs to be addressed desperately.  Hate and guns are ruining our society.  [/quote]

Look, obviously Andrew Lester deserves to go to jail for this. But I want to point out that this is an 84 year old man who, unless I’m wrong, did not have a prior police record. 84. He has outlived his expected life by 11 years and yes, maybe he was a racist a$&, and now he is going to jail for shooting an innocent kid who was just trying to take his siblings home. This is frightening because it means literally no one is safe from being shot through a door in this country. And it’s all because of the ease of getting guns. If we had strict gun control, perhaps Andrew Lester wouldn’t have been afraid that the knock on his door was the prelude to an armed invasion. If we had strict gun control, perhaps Andrew Lester would not have been affected by all the macho posturing of “stand your ground” and the “good guy with a gun” bulls$&t. He would just be another racist a$&hole, but not one that shot a child in the head. I hope he gets prosecuted, but in a way he is yet another victim of our asinine gun culture which has brainwashed otherwise law abiding people into vigilantes. Not as much as the tragic people who killed their own loved ones, thinking they were intruders, like this case

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article264787839.html

There are so many cases of people shooting innocent people at their homes and even their own loved ones by mistake. I wish we could just throw all the guns into the fires of Mordor and have a hobbit party afterwards. Sorry for my rant. [/quote]

How can you defend garbage like that? The old man belongs in prison. I hope he gets time. Not one single politician in office has the balls to bring back strict gun laws. [/quote]

When people look back at this tragic stupid chapter in American history, Andrew Lester will be one of the many many people who did bad things in the setting of a culture that worshipped guns, convinced the gullible that guns were the answer, believed people of color and woke libs were the enemy, and that shooting a kid through a closed door was justified. I am defending him in the sense of saying the problem is way way way bigger than one old racist attempted murderer. It’s a whole culture that is creating them that needs our anger and focus. He’s not like the idaho murderer guy, a one off serial killer. There are many Andrew Lesters out there who watch too much news max and fear the wrong things. It’s not just coincidence that nearly the same thing happened in upstate ny. And so many other times in the recent past if you do a quick google. Ralph’s case stands out because he was so truly innocent, so I hope it brings focus to all the other similar cases in which innocent people were killed or injured by guns. And then widen the focus and now you include all the kids and adults that were shot by children finding guns in the car or house. It’s all part of the same spectrum, all chapters in the stupid times we are living in. [/quote]

This was me. Today nytimes published this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/us/wrong-house-shootings-guns.html

I knew I wasn’t alone in thinking this. [/quote]
I always remember this kid near Charlotte who got into a car wreck and went to a house to ask for help. The woman called 911 because she was afraid of him and then the police who responded shot and killed him. I was in an accident on a lonely road at night when I was that age, I had to ring a stranger’s doorbell, and no one called the cops on me or murdered me.
https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/justice/north-carolina-police-shooting/index.html[/quote]

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