Chauvin trial

scenario number two:

It's seven in the evening, you fell asleep a few hours earlier.

It's your 60th birthday and your kids and grandkids decided to "surprise grandpa."

They enter your room in the dark with a candle festooned cake, surround you, turn on the lights and yell "surprise!"

Startled and reacting on adrenalin you grab the Sig under the pillow and kill em all.

Unlikely?

Is it?

If the cops starting shooting into my place, my meth lab will probably explode.

Quote: missedhervee

scenario number two:

It's seven in the evening, you fell asleep a few hours earlier.

It's your 60th birthday and your kids and grandkids decided to "surprise grandpa."

They enter your room in the dark with a candle festooned cake, surround you, turn on the lights and yell "surprise!"

Startled and reacting on adrenalin you grab the Sig under the pillow and kill em all.

Unlikely?

Is it?

How would they have gotten the keys to my place?

Under the door mat?

Hidden in a fake rock?

Dunno, but they got in.

Quote: missedhervee

Under the door mat?

Hidden in a fake rock?

Dunno, but they got in.

They didn't. Not in any way in which I wouldn't have been alerted in advance.

Scenario number three:

You're out camping; you told your family where you'd be.

It's your birthday, and they want to surprise you.

Tired from hours of endless posting you fall asleep at your camp at three in the afternoon.

Shortly thereafter your family and friends come to your camp with a cake, yell "surprise," and startled you mow them down like sheaves of wheat.

Family doesn't knock the door off the hinges when they want to "surprise" grampa, nor is the first thing they do is kill the dog before celebrating my birthday with a cake.

Added, just another good reason that the first two rounds are birdshot.

Quote: missedhervee

Scenario number three:

You're out camping; you told your family where you'd be.

It's your birthday, and they want to surprise you.

Tired from hours of endless posting you fall asleep at your camp at three in the afternoon.

Shortly thereafter your family and friends come to your camp with a cake, yell "surprise," and startled you mow them down like sheaves of wheat.

If my family wasn't with me camping already, then telling them where I am would totally defeat the purpose. There are cell phones in case of an emergency.

Also, suppose an emergency: I'm not a doctor. My knowing about it at one point as opposed to some other point won't make the subject any less dead or injured.

Also, and legitimately, everyone I know knows that I don't want to be bothered on my birthday. I consider it a stupid thing to celebrate.

OK, you win: you've rationalized it that under no possible scenario could or would you ever accidentally shoot a family member or friend.

Case closed?

Quote: missedhervee

OK, you win: you've rationalized it that under no possible scenario could or would you ever accidentally shoot a family member or friend.

Case closed?

Do ex wives count?