Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Quasi una parabola

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/11/29/alzheimers-victim-shot/
 
 
Thanksgiving Tragedy: Alzheimer’s Victim Shot By ‘Responsible’ Gun Owner 
(VIDEO)
 
AUTHOR: T. STEELMAN NOVEMBER 29, 2013 5:22 PM
 
Elderly Alzheimer's victim shot by hasty gun owner
An elderly Alzheimer’s victim wandered off in the wee hours of the 
morning. A ‘responsible’ gun owner overreacted and killed him. It didn’t 
have to happen.
 
A 72-year-old Alzheimer’s victim was shot by a gun owner in Chickamauga, 
Georgia early Wednesday morning. The elderly man, Ronald Westbrook, had 
wandered away from his home and got lost. He wandered for about 3 miles 
in the early morning hours, possibly believing he was returning to a 
home where he used to live. He was holding mail from that home’s mailbox 
when he died, police said.
 
A wandering Alzheimer’s victim lost in the middle of the night.
Westbrook had been wandering for about four hours, Sheriff Steve Wilson 
told reporters. At about 2:30 am a deputy on patrol had seen the 
Alzheimer’s victim at the mailbox of his former home. When he questioned 
the man, Westbrook told the deputy that he was just getting his mail and 
“lived up the hill” and the deputy drove on. If this had been 2:30 in 
the afternoon, I could see this. But at 2:30 in the morning, why didn’t 
the deputy look into it a little harder? It just seems odd, to me.
 
Westbrook wandered about for a couple more hours with his two dogs, 
wearing a thin windbreaker and straw hat. The wind chill Wednesday night 
was around 20 degrees. This poor man was probably cold, tired and, most 
definitely, confused. Then he spotted a beacon of, what could have been, 
hope:
 
“This one house at the end of the cul-de-sac had a porch light on,” 
Sheriff Wilson said. “I tend to think [the Alzheimer's victim] was drawn 
to that light.”
 
Westbrook went up to the home, rang the doorbell and tried to turn the 
doorknob. Joe Hendrix and his fiancée were awakened and called 911. 
While his fiancée was on the phone with dispatchers, Hendrix went 
outside. He was carrying a .40-caliber handgun. When he saw the 
Alzheimer’s victim behind the house, Hendrix says he issued “verbal 
commands.” When Westbrook didn’t stop, Hendrix fired four shots, hitting 
the Alzheimer’s victim in the chest and killing him.
 
Shooter may invoke “stand your ground” law as defense for killing the 
Alzheimer’s victim.
 
No charges have been filed against Hendrix but the sheriff is 
investigating the shooting with the help of The Georgia Bureau of 
Investigation. Sheriff Wilson and the local District Attorney may yet 
file charges. Georgia passed a “stand your ground” law in 2006 and it 
may apply to this case, Wilson said.
 
The dispatcher who was on the phone with Hendrix’s fiancée says that 
neither of them were aware that Hendrix had gone outside with a gun. The 
Sheriff noted that, while Hendrix did not break any laws by doing so, he 
should have stayed inside the house. With two patrol cars having been 
dispatched to deal with the situation, there was no reason for it.
 
Sheriff knew the victim and his family.
 
Sheriff Wilson went to the same church as Westbrook. He says that the 
family didn’t realize the Alzheimer’s victim had wandered off until 
about the time of the shooting. Wilson said that Westbrook was “a fine 
man” and that he felt bad for his family. He also stated that Hendrix 
was “saddened and heartbroken” and that he “will have to live with his 
actions” for the rest of his life.
 
I can’t imagine how it must feel to shoot an innocent person. But I 
can’t help but think that if Mr. Hendrix had simply stayed inside and 
waited for the police, that innocent man might still be alive. What 
possesses a gun owner to think that he (and it’s usually a man) can or 
should handle any out-of-the-ordinary situation on his own? With his 
gun, of course. As responsible gun owners,  my husband and I have put in 
place a procedure for such a situation. We wouldn’t go creeping around 
in the dark with a loaded weapon, ready to fire at anything that moves. 
Surely we can’t be the only ones who are prepared like this? I don’t 
understand why every gun owner can’t be as conscientious. If this one 
had been, an elderly Alzheimer’s victim would be sitting down to 
Thanksgiving dinner with his family today.
-- 
Namib
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Земля - колыбель человечества, но нельзя вечно жить в колыбели
(Константи́н Эдуа́рдович Циолко́вский)

il retroterra cattolico porta a vedere parabole... Io invece ci vedo un midrash. Ecco qua:
Io sono a favore di un gun control non solo restrittivo, ma addirittura dispotico. Eppure (sara' una questione di religione) non me la sento di usare la tragedia dell'Alzheimer per le battaglie politiche da pollaio. Ma questa deve essere la abitudine di chi usa come insulto la espressione "ritardato". Lo stesso genere di gente per cui un bambino (ebreo) e' un ostacolo alla pace. Comunque, quando penso all'Alzheimer penso anche a queste notizie
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(chissa' come mai cosi' tanti scienziati, che lavorano per il bene della intera umanita', sono ebrei e israeliani. E si' che gli ebrei sono un gruppo assai piccolo. A consolazione dei comunisti, ci sta sempre il fulgido esempio di Lysenko. E chissa' se questo genere di avanzamenti scientifici, di cui beneficiano anche i Tondelli, i Namib e i Bombacci, potrebbero avvenire se, al posto di uno Stato ebraico, si realizzasse la sanguinaria utopia degli Stei Iumanne, lo  "Stato di tutti i cittadini" con gli ebrei ridotti a far la fine degli alawiti in Siria.

 Io sono a favore di un gun control non solo restrittivo, ma addirittura dispotico.
 
Ma proprio per tutti, anche, diciamo, per gli studenti 40enni con 
pistola o fucile d'ordinanza a tracolla, diciamo in una yeshiva. Diciamo 
in quell'unico posto senza petrolio dove li aveva portati quell'egiziano..
 
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Στο άπειρο και ακόμα παραπέρα
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 A consolazione dei comunisti, ci sta sempre il fulgido esempio di Lysenko.
 
nobel per la fisica e la chimica sovietici = 9 russi imperiali = 0

l'ebreo che si difende lascia segni indelebili nella psiche dei topi di fogna

 l'ebreo che si difende lascia segni indelebili nella psiche dei topi di fogna
 
insomma, some exceptions apply per chi 'ha imparato a sparare'...
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o, piu' prosaicamente, non credo che un nazi abbia titoli per parlare di faccende interne ad Israele. Lo so che vorresti, probabilmente e' una questione di religione.