Police: Man Shot Girlfriend's Ex In Self Defense

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

ATLANTA (AP) -- Police say a man who shot and killed his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend was acting in self defense.

The shooting happened just after 3 p.m. Monday at an apartment in the 2,000 block of Lenox Road.

Atlanta police Maj. Renee Propes said the shooting victim waited outside his ex-girlfriend's apartment until her new boyfriend came home. Propes said the man attacked the new boyfriend and the fight continued into the apartment, where the new boyfriend shot and killed the ex-boyfriend.


http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=133058

[wtbymark]

1. and your point about these 5 posts and guns is??????????

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

2. For informational purposes only.

[tridim]

4. I think he gets NRA bonus miles or something.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. I'm not a member of the NRA.

[d_b]

8. lols

[Hoopla Phil]

3. Some folks just will not take no for an answer.

[geckosfeet]

6. Oh boy! More 'gun owner kills intruder' posts.

Thanks Dave! I really do look forward to these insightful educational posts.

These kinds of incidents should reminds us all that should the need arise, we too can defend ourselves, our property and our family members. No darned Obama is going to take that right away from us.

I am so jazzed up, I am going out to buy some more ammunition for my stockpile.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

7. Calling the President a monkey is highly inappropriate. You are disgusting.

[geckosfeet]

9. I know. I disgust me. All better now.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

10. I like knowing who the racist are, so yes.

[iverglas]

21. and I like knowing who the dishonest posters are here

So thanks.

Well, not that it was new to me ...

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

23. Do you find it racist to call the President a monkey? I certainly do.

[iverglas]

24. Do you find it dishonest to ask questions loaded with false premises

based on intentional misrepresentation of the meaning of what someone else said?

I certainly do.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

25. One shouldn't refer to the President as a monkey on any premise.

[proteus_lives]

11. Self-defense is the way to go.

It's too bad that d-bag couldn't get over the end of a relationship.

[comtec]

12. So a heart broken man is dead

as opposed to the civilized alternative, where both are beat up, and in jail for public disturbance?
the best case scenario is that the killer lives with this the rest of his life.
the worst case is that he live with this the rest of his life... in jail.

how civilized we gun owners are!

[pipoman]

13. Or another alternative

the dead man causes injury to the other man which results in death or permanent disability.

[slackmaster]

14. There is nothing civilized about beating someone up or allowing one's self to be beaten up

Unless you are a Klingon or something.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

15. Because no one is ever seriously injured or killed in a fight. MMMMMkay.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

16. Would you make the same argument about a broken hearted boyfriend beating up his ex?

[Katya Mullethov]

17. It is difficult to pronounce the word " civilized " .

Without any front teeth .

[JonQ]

18. Attacking another male to gain access to his mate is civilized?

Sounds like the action of a wild animal to me.

And so he was treated like a wild animal that is a threat to a human being and promptly put down.

Seriously, how is getting beaten by someone you did not provoke somehow civilized?

[benEzra]

20. So maniacal abusive ex's are now "heart broken men"? How sweet.

Clue: A "heartbroken man" wouldn't stalk and ambush his ex or her companion. A controlling "if I can't have her then nobody will" type might, though. And the worst case scenario would be one in which the abusive ex murders the woman and her new love, then kills himself, which happens often enough.

[iverglas]

22. it's an amazing thing

I can't be sure, but I have this feeling that people come to fisticuffs daily, hourly, perhaps even every minute of the day, somewhere.

And yet a whole lot of those who don't have, or whose adversary doesn't have, a firearm to hand seem to end up alive.

It must be magic.

[JonQ]

19. Somewhere a brady campaign propagandist

is adding this to his tally of "murderers" committed by handguns in an attempt to justify repealing the 2nd amendment.

It is unfortunate the attacker was unable to take the gun away and use it on the boyfriend and ex-girlfriend, that would have made a much better story.