Huh. You can teach an old dog new tricks.

[ernunnos]

Some people just don't believe in evil. It's a common liberal affliction. Criminals are just good folks who've made a mistake, or who have been driven to crime by poverty or some other misfortune. It's a very common delusion. abz6598 just made a post about how that attitude is promoted in the Spider-Man movies and comics. It's the individual equivalent to

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[maradydd]

Every time I read stories like this one, I like to remind people of the incident seven years ago in Houston where a couple of teenagers stole a car and a gun and started driving around the Montrose holding up pedestrians, until they picked the wrong guy:Hjalmar Sundeen was walking his dog Wuppie Puppie, a 55-pound black "muttweiler." Hjalmar, 51, took his usual route down Woodhead to the corner of Morse. The eight-year-old dog was sniffing the grass when Hjalmar spotted a car with only the parking lights on. The passenger yelled something at him, but Hjalmar couldn't understand if the guy was asking for his wallet or wondering where Waugh is (it's just around the corner). Hjalmar says he turned around, said, "What?" and a guy standing three feet behind him shot him in the face

[scarybaldguy]

Usually he carries an H&K .40-caliber revolver.

A what?

[maradydd]

Yeah, I won't pretend the Houston Press actually knows anything about guns.

[no_brakes23]

I seriously doubt he missed them by 2 hundreths of an inch.

Also, is an HK40 revolver based on a Mateba, or did H&K start fresh with their own design?

[maradydd]

I seriously doubt he missed them by 2 hundreths of an inch.

Likewise, but maybe it was a penetration issue, since two rounds lodged in the door. Still, I don't fault him. I'd be a lousy shot too if I'd just been popped in the neck.