the court trials had him deliberately making the shots without extreme provocation, enough so that he was sentanced to jail time and psychiatric treatment. Moreover in the civil trial that followed the criminal trial jury found that Goetz acted deliberately and recklessly.
While yes he was robbed, his actions both before and in response to the four men indicated that he deliberately decided to seek that out ( several days of doing similar actions do more than suggest that) and shoot anyone who attempted to rob him. As I said he was hunting. On Thursday, February 23, 2012, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > "Except that Goetz went hunting, he was not defending his or his > neighbour's > house, unless that is he lived in a New York subway car." > > Please. He went hunting? I didn't realize getting mugged was called > 'hunting' now. Or do you think all victims are actually the perpetrators? > Pretty common in some extreme leftist circles. > > > > "So how does this apply." > > One of the survivors sued him and he lost the case. > > > > "To me it seems irrelevant to the discussion." > > You are entitled to your opinions. I will say that it seems that you must > have missed the post about shooting the burglar in the head but no big > deal. > > > J > > - > > 03-16-2006 - The fact that we are here today to debate raising Americas > debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Leadership means that the buck > stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices > today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt > problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore > intend to oppose the effort to increase Americas debt limit. - Barack Oba > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347299 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
