Reply #40: the kid shot FIRST, you gun-shy whiners! [View All]

[harpboy_ak]

the store owner then shot the kid. seems to me that the slight burden and slight discomfort of the required surgery does not outweigh the state's need to recover the evidence that the perp is withholding.

I agree that it would have been better for the store owner to have used a better weapon and perhaps aimed better. If the kid had died I doubt if the store owner would have been charged, since he was defending himself from an armed attack.