A Shot in the Dark
Guilty until proven innocent is an important concept particularly if you are wrongly accused.
Yet with that being said, I'm not sure I'm buying the Blade Runner's story.
To paraphrase, he was hot and he got up out of bed to retrieve a fan. His beautiful girlfriend, who he loved above all else was asleep beside him when he hopped out of bed.
When he was getting the fan he heard a noise in the bathroom. He was so scared for his life that he raised his gun, after putting his legs on, and shot through the door, killing her by accident.
Uh, yeah.
Sounds plausible.
Let's try and imagine it.
First off, that wouldn't happen in my home for two very important reasons.
1). I don't own a gun.
and
2). My beautiful wife most likely would've left the door open.
But all that aside.
Don't you call out to the person behind the door?
Did he do that?
"Who's in the bathroom?" Frightened Oscar says.
"It's a marauding intruder!"
She must have answered that way, in a fake voice, to get the gun-blast response.
That's the only possible conclusion you can draw.
More likely it went like this:
"Get out here or I'll kill you!"
"I'm calling the cops," she cried.
And it calls to mind the questions that come up in such a trial. How can a defense lawyer look someone in the eye, knowing what the truth most likely is, and work as hard as he can to muddy the waters and get his client off?
Seems a shady way to make a living.
Yet, Oscar is guaranteed his day in court.
Shoot into the dark first and deal with the consequences?
Even if it were an intruder is that the way to handle such a situation?
The guy is locked in the bathroom. You have your legs on.
You can't just head off and find help?
You can't pick up your phone and call the police?
You shoot first?
Why are gun owners so scared all the time?
Oh, by the way, there have been 2,000 gun deaths since we were all horrified by Newtown.
Keep shooting, boys.
They're coming for you.
Yet with that being said, I'm not sure I'm buying the Blade Runner's story.
To paraphrase, he was hot and he got up out of bed to retrieve a fan. His beautiful girlfriend, who he loved above all else was asleep beside him when he hopped out of bed.
When he was getting the fan he heard a noise in the bathroom. He was so scared for his life that he raised his gun, after putting his legs on, and shot through the door, killing her by accident.
Uh, yeah.
Sounds plausible.
Let's try and imagine it.
First off, that wouldn't happen in my home for two very important reasons.
1). I don't own a gun.
and
2). My beautiful wife most likely would've left the door open.
But all that aside.
Don't you call out to the person behind the door?
Did he do that?
"Who's in the bathroom?" Frightened Oscar says.
"It's a marauding intruder!"
She must have answered that way, in a fake voice, to get the gun-blast response.
That's the only possible conclusion you can draw.
More likely it went like this:
"Get out here or I'll kill you!"
"I'm calling the cops," she cried.
And it calls to mind the questions that come up in such a trial. How can a defense lawyer look someone in the eye, knowing what the truth most likely is, and work as hard as he can to muddy the waters and get his client off?
Seems a shady way to make a living.
Yet, Oscar is guaranteed his day in court.
Shoot into the dark first and deal with the consequences?
Even if it were an intruder is that the way to handle such a situation?
The guy is locked in the bathroom. You have your legs on.
You can't just head off and find help?
You can't pick up your phone and call the police?
You shoot first?
Why are gun owners so scared all the time?
Oh, by the way, there have been 2,000 gun deaths since we were all horrified by Newtown.
Keep shooting, boys.
They're coming for you.
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