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This guy pulled over to yell at a cyclist for having his three-year-old in a child safety seat on the back of his bike, saying it's unsafe. They exchanged words. The cyclist walked away. So the guy shot the cyclist in the head with a handgun. The cyclist lived because, luckily, the bullet lodged in his helmet. The shooter was charged with attempted first-degree murder. A judge has sentenced the shooter to…four months in prison. I know that stretch of road. It's totally reasonable to cycle on, and definitely not worth shooting somebody in the head over.
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Yeah, nothing says safety like a gunshot to the head for not following along.
This world is nuts. And 4 months? If he had been caught with contraband, he would have gone away for years. Something wrong there.
The shooter would also leave a 3-year-old child without a father. Justice?
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. There’s got to be more to this story. Anger management training and 4 months time? What kind of collusion is going on here?
So basically, as long as people are wearing a helmet and I don’t mind doing 4 months in the can, I can shot a handgun aimed at people’s head at random strangers I have an altercation with? I repeat, Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
I wonder where and how this “law abiding citizen” bought his handgun?
1)With his felony conviction Diez loses the privilege to carry a firearm. Hopefully that will never change.
2)Asheville, NC, despite its many attractive aspects is still the seriously f-ed up town that Thomas Wolfe described. I know it is a city, but it is run like a club. About 12 Ashvillians can make anything happen, and if you weren’t born there, you’ll never belong there.
Sheikh Bubby,
That sounds a lot like some counties in Virginia, namely Prince Edward and Cumberland. Corrupt as the day is long.
C’mon. People have a second amendment right to shoot people in the head who disagree with them….don’t they?
In the early 1980’s a few well connected Asheville commercial property owners decided that the way to revitalize the city was to throw in with a big developer and facilitate the condemnation/demolition of most of downtown Asheville – to build a convention center. It took an election recall to fix that corruption, and ignited the last big backlash to the “good ‘ol boys”. Maybe this latest travesty will do the same.