I enjoyed the posts at Legal Insurrection made by someone named JackRussellTerrieriest so much I decided to paste the best ones here for your enjoyment, folks:
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"McBride was the kind of person who, when a problem arises, demands that the entire world should drop whatever they’re doing and immediately come to her aid no matter how inconvenient it is, what it costs them, or how dangerous her behavior is.
In her drunken stupor, McBride probably left her call phone in her wrecked car and didn’t want to go back for it for fear of running into the cops. Instead of taking shelter or cover behind some shrubbery or some out-of-the-way object or building for just a couple of hours to sober up and shield herself from sight until it became a decent enough hour to ask to borrow someone’s phone to call for a ride, she wanted to go home NOW and by God somebody needs to wake their ass up and take care of her NOW.
As for the car she hit, yes, it’s only property, property that somebody probably worked hard to get. Unavoidable, unintentional traffic accidents happen, but this wasn’t that. She was a careless, thoughtless menace on the road.
I would have to be bleeding so badly that I thought I was going to die before I would beat somebody’s door down at 4:30am to ask for help.
Some want to talk about what Wafer SHOULD have done, and I realize that’s completely relevant to the court case in terms of reasonable action, but nobody wants to talk about what McBride actually DID that brought about her own death or the extent to which she endangered probably hundreds of other people by driving a motor vehicle at that level of intoxication. It’s quite possible that if Wafer hadn’t shot her that night she would have killed herself and/or others some other night. Nothing she did that night showed any regard for other people. It was all about I want to get drunk out of my mind, I want to drive with a stratospheric BAC level, I want to go home NOW and f#!k the rest of the world.
McBride created the circumstances that lead to her death. Wafer was just the poor, sleepy bastard who lived in the house SHE chose to accost at 4:30am about the problem SHE created for herself.
I guess there is solace in knowing that she was so drunk she didn’t know what hit her and died peacefully enough and a whole lot easier than many victims of drunk drivers do.
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Few seem to notice what McBride did to bring about her own death. Wafer, an apparently decent working man asleep at 4:30am, is supposed to be an expert in weaponry because he’s got a shotgun in the house. Why? because the gungrabbers, through our beloved government, want ANY gun owner to be thrashed, bankrupted and imprisoned anytime someone dies, especially if the dead person is black and the shooter is white. Just ask Eric Holder.
I guess we should all be fine with drunken psychos ripping our screen doors off, then beating on the door continually and yelling loudly and repeatedly at 4:30am. After all, it’s an Obama world now.
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I don’t see the two situations mutually exclusive.
A untrained person who just keeps a shotgun around for home protection might forget whether or not it was loaded. Remember, there was a time when people just bought and fired guns without having to jump through a thousand hoops. I know many such people. They have one or two guns handed down or purchased before the government started their steroidal rampage against the Second Amendment. These people really don’t know much about guns beyond point-and-click. They clean them once every ten years or so.
When non-gun guys and gals believe they’re under assault, the adrenalin flows. They might not have had the gun out in several years. They might forget to check to see if it’s loaded, if they even have time. They might forget to let the safety off. But what they DO know they can do is point that sucker at somebody and scare the beejeezus out of them so they run off. They also might accidentally pull the trigger, or they might pull it with the hope that it IS loaded, depending on the circumstances.
McBride put herself in the extremely drunken condition she was in. McBride negligently hit a parked car and fled. McBride put herself in the circumstances of fleeing the cops or seeking a ride. McBride put herself at that door. McBride banged on and tore or half-tore Wafer’s outer door off. McBride loudly yelled and yelled. McBride’s incredible self-indulgence, negligence and complete disregard for others brought about a situation wherein she scared the hell out of somebody and they shot her death. It doesn’t matter one iota to me if the shooting was accidental or if it was done intentionally out of fear.
Nobody in their right mind would do what she did. Yes, she was so drunk she may not have been in her right mind, but that isn’t Wafer’s fault or his responsibility. It’s McBride’s fault. She was her own keeper, as all adults are. She could have just as easily wrapped herself around a tree that night or run into a Mack truck or a building or off a bridge and died. Her condition and conduct were so egregiously negligent that anything that happened to her was a result of that. That her actions have severely screwed up another person’s life because the law became involved in it due to – horrors – a gun being used instead of an inanimate object like a tree is almost as sad as if she killed someone else with her vehicle."