How Dare You Defend Yourselves
In the comments, WTP steers us to this crime news item, in which a 23-year-old man, described as “known to police,” attempted a spot of armed robbery at a Dollar General store before being shot and killed by a store employee. Being schooled in modern manners, the family of said man are terribly indignant:
They’re furious about how it happened.
Yes, well. I suspect the staff and customers being menaced at gunpoint weren’t too thrilled to find themselves being preyed upon, for the fourth time this year, by armed criminal vermin. Though I suppose it’s easier on the ego if you can pretend that the problem is that people may defend themselves when your degenerate brother, with a history of involvement in criminal activity, threatens their lives while trying to rob them.
If only these creatures were capable of shame.
We’ve been here before, of course.
David,
An update regarding the far-left Chicago Teachers Union.
You mentioned them in this post:
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2014/03/elsewhere-116.html
“And Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, wants “social justice” shoehorned into primary school maths teaching. Because who could possibly want their children to learn arithmetic without some nakedly Marxoid indoctrination?”
The CTU is currently in contract negotiations. Among its demands are “affordable housing” for teachers and students:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/10/8/20905834/cps-teachers-strike-ctu-union-public-schools-affordable-housing
“…[Mayor] Lightfoot’s office released a statement after the 49th bargaining session between the two sides and again complained that the CTU hasn’t responded to her latest offer with a solid counter-offer. Instead, the mayor said the union used Tuesday’s bargaining session to discuss concerns about the lack of affordable housing in the city — an issue the union has been pushing for months.
Lightfoot said in her statement that the teachers contract wasn’t “the appropriate place” for the city to legislate affordable housing policies….”
gibberish here
Regarding the gun-waving thug and his just desserts:
The anti-civilization Leftoids tend to lecture us normals that “it’s only PROPERTY, and it can always be replaced”.
They neglect to note the TIME and LABOR it takes to accumulate that “property”; they won’t acknowledge that when these little thuglets steal something, they take not only the “thing”, but also the hours of labor required to earn the money to buy it, and then again the hours of labor necessary to replace it.
So: to my mind, any threat to one’s life -whether in its entirety, or just a few-hundred hours of it- is justification for the use of Utmost Force.
“gibberish here”
Exqueeze me, baking powder?
I used to work with a woman who would pretend not to understand a simple request like “Where is the Smith file?” unless you said exactly the right words such as “Where is the Sam W. Smith union pension file?”
Presumably she works in a law firm? I’ve had lawyers play that game with me. Not that I can’t play it back but where I come from it’s a glaring sign of insecurity and weakness. I have begun calling people out on this crap that I used to let pass. Gotta be in the mood for it, have the time to take them to the mat if necessary, and be damn sure one’s facts are completely in order. Really growing tired of these passive/aggressive attitudes. Someone around here also plays this game or somewhat similar. Though I’ll admit in that case it’s not worth the bother anymore.
Presumably she works in a law firm?
Or is in a union, and loves the “work to rule” tactic of obstruction?
A_Nonny_Mous:
They neglect to note the TIME and LABOR it takes to accumulate that “property”; they won’t acknowledge that when these little thuglets steal something, they take not only the “thing”, but also the hours of labor required to earn the money to buy it, and then again the hours of labor necessary to replace it.
So: to my mind, any threat to one’s life -whether in its entirety, or just a few-hundred hours of it- is justification for the use of Utmost Force.
Finally! Or +100, or whatever the cool kids are saying these days.
Some years back, someone I know lost her great grandmother’s engagement ring to a freelance socialist (H/T Heinlein).
Q for the ‘only property’ crowd: would you rather be roughed up, even bruised (‘personal’ crime), or have an heirloom (‘only property’) stolen? No bafflegab allowed.
Presumably she works in a law firm?
Yes. Well.
I often find myself in the position of having people ask me the equivalent of “where’s the Smith file”. The thing is, at any given moment I’m dealing with a dozen Smiths, each of whom has half a dozen files to their name.
You know which “Smith file” you’re thinking of, but you didn’t bother to impart that information to me, so I’m going to tell you to $%^& off and stop wasting my time until you learn how to communicate effectively.
…until you learn how to communicate effectively.
Two-way street, mon ami. There’s a pretty wide gulf between the colleague who says, “Which Smith file? I’m working on several at the moment,” and the one who pretends that she has so many Krasczmarczek files that she couldn’t possibly understand which one you want.
There’s a pretty wide gulf between the colleague who says […]
And yet, if you simply specify which file you actually want without pointless ambiguity, you get the same result from both of them.
“Gibberish here” …
Well, see, I have hideous awful internet “service”. I’d tried and tried to comment, but always failed. The “Post” button was grayed out, or my system would freeze, or whatever.
So I just-for-grins tried one more time. And I even left the email addr blank so it would be rejected, as a just-in-case.
WEELLLL, as you can see, THAT
was the One Magic Time all the planets aligned and my dangfrimmen comment zipped thru the ether and posted instantaneously.
Apologies.
Omigosh, that makes two comments that worked! Might as well try to make my original point, even though the caravan has moved on:
Regarding the gun-waving thug and his just desserts: The anti-civilization Leftoids tend to lecture us normals that “it’s only PROPERTY, and it can always be replaced”.
They neglect to note the TIME and LABOR it takes to acquire that “property”; they won’t acknowledge that when these little thuglets steal something, they take not only the “thing”, but also the hours of labor
required to earn the money to buy it, and then again the hours of labor necessary to replace it.
So: to my mind, any threat to one’s life -whether in its entirety, or just a few-hundred hours of it- is justification for the use of Utmost Force.
— now, click “Post” and cross my fingers…
Exactly, A_Name. Just don’t try telling such things to a psychiatrist. They will either roll their eyes or show the sort of mild bemusement one expresses when encountering a novel but wild, out of left field conspiracy theory. Don’t ask me how I know.
…The “Post” button was grayed out…
Possible solution: Did you enter your name & email after typing your comment? Make and then un-make a single-letter change to your comment. The “Post” button should become enabled.