The kind that ends up dead on a gun range?
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UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Deservedly so.
oldngray
nowhere special
Jury Finds Texas Man Not Guilty in Shooting Death of Drunk Driver Who Killed Two Sons
https://gma.yahoo.com/jury-finds-te...ing-death-201801615--abc-news-topstories.html
https://gma.yahoo.com/jury-finds-te...ing-death-201801615--abc-news-topstories.html
oldngray
nowhere special
The case never should have gone to trial. It was just a prosecutor who forced it through to trial. Only real evidence was the father had some of same kind of ammo as used in the shooting ( .357) but no gun or any other evidence, just conjecture of what "might" have happened by the prosecutor.
I think Texas juries are stupid. Where's the rule of law here? Lost in revenge and emotion.
oldngray
nowhere special
So you claim he was guilty regardless of evidence and what the jury decided? What do you base your guilty verdict on?
moreluck
golden ticket member
jury had no facts and they are stupid?? Maybe they should just make stuff up and you'd be happy then.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
We both have kids.
We would both be devastated if anything happened to them.
I agree with the verdict.
retiredTxfeeder
cap'n crunch
I'm acquainted with this case. It didn't happen terribly far from me, and the local news carried the trial on a daily basis. There were no witnesses (it was in a rural area). They never found a weapon. A holster and ammo was found in the father's house, but he claimed he didn't own a gun. The prosecutor had a rough row to hoe from the beginning. A couple of years ago, a Texas rancher found a hired hand of his molesting the rancher's daughter behind a barn. He beat him to death with his bare hands. He was no-billed by a grand jury. Do I think the guy shot the driver in the head that killed his 2 sons? Very probably. Was justice served? I believe so. I would have probably done the same.
oldngray
nowhere special
I also think he probably did it but there just wasn't enough evidence to convict. About all the prosecution had was big time motive.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
Just to clarify, Bill Gates gave money to support Initiative 594 in Washington state. It would require universal background checks for gun sales. Seems like common sense to me.
728ups
All Trash No Trailer
i am curios if it's The Gun Store on Tropicana
retiredTxfeeder
cap'n crunch
The jury only took 3 hours, and that was including lunch. Sure made the DA look pretty foolish. She came on the news down here and was pist!
moreluck
golden ticket member
don't know....driving too fast to completely read the sign.
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
So ALL Texas juries are stupid because ONE of them renders a verdict you that you dont happen to agree with in a case that you have NO real information about?
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
I call gross negligence on this one. It is hard enough for a full-grown adult to control muzzle rise when firing full-auto, there is no way in hell a 9 yr old girl is capable of doing it and any competent instructor should have known that. Letting a 9 year old shoot an UZI on full auto is the equivalent of taking a 15 year old who has never driven a car before, putting them behind the wheel of a 500 HP Camaro drag car set up with nitrous boost and a supercharger, and telling them to just go ahead and floor it on a public highway. Only a complete idiot would do that.
Actually, I was.wrong.about that. The Yahoo article didn't go that in depth and I assumed it was more clear cut.
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