"Showdown at the snack stand": Iraq war supporter murders friend

[Bluebear]

In case you missed this in LBN...

PRESTONSBURG, Kentucky - The Iraq war has been a divisive issue in America for more than two years now, but a shooting at an Eastern Kentucky flea market this week might have marked the first time a dispute over the war has resulted in a death.

A quarrel between two firearms vendors at a Floyd County flea market on Thursday allegedly led both men -- described as "good friends" -- to draw guns. Douglas Moore, 65, of Martin, who supports the war, shot and killed Harold Wayne Smith, 56, of Manchester, who opposed it, investigators said.

Moore was questioned at the Floyd County Jail, but he was released without being charged after Kentucky State Police said it appears he acted in self-defense....

"Harold was talking about the 14 people that were killed in Iraq the other day and Doug said that just as many people were killed on the highways here," Hamman told the paper.

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/state/12317968.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

[SlowDownFast]

1. described as "good friends"...

heh.

[d_b]

4. Same thing I was thinking

[MADem]

5. With friends like that, who needs enemies??? n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

2. I would have bet $20 bucks that it was going to read like that....

don't know why..but had a feeling....

Douglas Moore, 65, of Martin, who supports the war, shot and killed Harold Wayne Smith, 56, of Manchester, who opposed it,

self-defense. oh well. how sad. I guess it just never occurred to this guy to shoot his good friend in the foot, or right side, rather than in the upper left chest....hmmmmmmmmmmmm

[niallmac]

3. So let me get this straight..

If I invite my victim to a gun show and get in an argument with him while he's showing me how you load a mauzer or what ever...I can shoot him and make it home for dinner.

[Botany]

6. Hint

Do not debate w/ Firearm vendors.

[oneighty]

7. people kill people

gun was saying no no no.

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[CityZen-X]

8. Can't Blame The Guns...

it's those pesky bullets!

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Great idea. Let's stop all the Gun Control talk and start a Bullet Control

Campaign!!!!:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[billbuckhead]

10. I thought guns make things better?

Just like GE.

[mirrera]

13. and DDT...yeah...

We love being fed garbage! Like the person AGAINST the war was the dangerous one...uh huh...makes sense in Amerika.

http://NoBullshiRt.com

[oneighty]

11. Good point

I have owned hand guns long guns shot guns. Not any more though. I lived in boondocks then where it was fun and safe to shoot. I was never a hunter. Snake shot loaded hand gun in bad snake country is a welcome accessory I will admit.

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[slor]

12. first time ?

There was a shooting in a bar in Florida, 2 or so years ago, about the war.

[BrklynLiberal]

16. Down the Memory Hole... Sorry. No one talks about that any more.

They won't talk about this one either after a while.

:spank: :spank: :spank: C'mon..get with the program.

[TexasLady]

14. Im not surprised

after seven years of friendship, a friend of my DH's and I said he'd have no problem shooting me for my 'stupid beliefs and hatred against America"(his words)...all in the heat of anger. Im thankful there werent any guns around!

We don't talk much now.

[BrklynLiberal]

19. Whew. THAT is really scary!!! I can see why you would not want to spend

much time with someone who could actually say that to you.

[kestrel91316]

15. And notice how we never see the opposite - - - - war opponent

shoots and kills friend who supports war................

Kinda makes you wonder about us vs. them, huh?

[Mutley]

17. I wonder if it had been the guy opposed to the war

who killed the guy for the war would it still have been self defense?

[BrklynLiberal]

20. Interesting point...especially since his family mentioned that he was

pretty much alone in that neighborhood in his opinion against the war.

She said her father "had different opinions than everybody. He felt it was wrong that all of these young people were losing their lives over what was going on. It was just a political disagreement, like a whole lot of people have."

[Obamarama]

18. Why does it not surpirse me this happened in the south? eot

[brook]

21. I knew in my gut...

when the other thread on this was posted that at least the shooter was a gun dealer.It's a damned sad story - and I still find it fishy that they found a derringer 'close' to the decedant's body.

[BrklynLiberal]

22. Now that you mention it, he was retired police officer. It would seem

unlikely that he would pull a gun on a friend in anger. The more you think about it..the less sense that makes.

Columbo. Monk!!.where are you??!!!

Smith, a father of three who was being treated for diabetes and a heart condition, retired from the state highway department in 1990 after suffering a heart attack, his wife said. He underwent open-heart surgery in 1999.

[brook]

26. I think it's unlikely as well.

'Self defense' is just a coat of cheap paint, imho.

[lildreamer316]

23. Well of COURSE it was

close to his body..It was a GUN SHOW. Bet you couldn't walk 2 feet without running into a weapon of some sort. Shame he's getting away with it.
Idiots.

[ignatius 2]

24. Released without charges. WTF? Welcome to the wild west, goodbye

civilization.

[Stirk]

25. "Self Defense". Yeah, right.

I've yet to hear a story about a war opponent shooting a war advocate to death in an argument. I've heard the opposite three times, IIRC.

[Bluebear]

27. for the morning shift

[anarchy1999]

28. And away we GO! What fun. Everyone arm yourselves. We can just

start blasting away at one another.

Ain't we got fun!