From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of lurkernomore20002000
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 1:13 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: She Shot Him 6 Times
What am I missing here? Let's assume the story is true. (i think someone
posted something to say it wasn't, but let's say it's true) You've go 99% of
the people in the world applauding this women, who doesn't want someone to
her steal her hard earned money, and is willing to risk her life to that
end, and then you've got an unlikely alliance of Barry, Judy, and Rick
twisting this around to make Dixon appear as though he is advocating
arbitrary "culling" of those he deems undesireable.
His words: "I have no problem *culling* society of those that live on the
edge, endangering the rest of us for their lack of intelligence or
compassion." Such a compassionate statement, huh?
Yes, this guy IS undesireable, and the risk he takes when he violates
someone else's rights is that he can also lose his own life, or get harmed.
And aren't we all better for it? Hell yea, we are.
The implication of the fictitious story is that execution is an appropriate
sentence for purse snatching, and that all citizens should be authorized to
play judge, jury, and executioner on the spot. It might be argued that she
would have been justified in firing one shot to disable the guy, but her
intent in firing six or more was obviously to kill him. And then "Bill
Hicks" took it to the next logical step by saying that we should be able to
shoot people who take two parking places. The story has no inherent worth.
It merely panders to the murderous tendencies in those who find it
inspiring. And I doubt that shooting a purse snatcher or two would stop many
purse snatchers. It would probably just incline the more hardened criminals
to shoot first and then take the purse.
I find it ironic that probably many of those who get their ya-ya's from this
story consider themselves Christians, yet the mentality the story portrays
is the polar opposite of what Christ taught. But such hypocrisy is par for
the course with fundamentalist Christians, and with the right wing in
general.
