15 Year Old Shot at Solomons Landing
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Otter
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Oh...so how do you know this?? Are you his doctor?? I haven't seen this written anywhere.
PrepH4U
New Member
Hey you are a great advocate for the young innocents just wanting to have a little fun.
Maybe next time it could be your grandfather or grandmother being terrorized by some local punks. Knocking on their door, yelling at them, threatening to run them over with skateboards. Setting fires just for fun.
But that's ok because they have lived a long happy life and they are living in a nice place. After working all their lives they shouldn't be able to retire in a nice peaceful community. Don't worry about their blood pressure, don't worry about them afraid to go out and get groceries because they just don't want to encounter punks because their nerves just can't take anymore harrassment that day. HOWS THAT FOR SCARY???
CREResident
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Because Armiger retreated into his home.... not to defend himself in his home, but to grab his gun and go after some young whipper snappers. A reasonable man would have retreated into his home and called the police who apparently were already near there because the responding officer heard the gun shot.
Anyone who can so easily lose their temper to the point of intentionally making a trip inside their home to grab a gun and then going after another person to fire the gun at them simply because they were angry (not threatened) has no self-control and is emotionally unstable and dangerous.
But apparently, there are a lot of people on this forum lacking reason too.
Hey you are a great advocate for the young innocents just wanting to have a little fun.
Maybe next time it could be your grandfather or grandmother being terrorized by some local punks. Knocking on their door, yelling at them, threatening to run them over with skateboards. Setting fires just for fun.
But that's ok because they have lived a long happy life and they are living in a nice place. After working all their lives they shouldn't be able to retire in a nice peaceful community. Don't worry about their blood pressure, don't worry about them afraid to go out and get groceries because they just don't want to encounter punks because their nerves just can't take anymore harrassment that day. HOWS THAT FOR SCARY???
...and maybe they really do feel threatened by these foul-mouthed, nasty kids. Yeah, they're "just" bagging on doors and cussing out the old people today, but what happens when they encounter one of these residents alone and need some running around money. They're sure to think twice if they think Granny's packin' !! And I hope they all are!!
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CREResident
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Well... one thing makes me feel safer... all the crazies in Southern MD are here posting on this forum.... not grabbing their guns and shooting people.... well... except for Armiger.
Don't show up at my house with your skateboard........
ladyhawk
Active Member
Well thank God somebody finally put those kids in their place. I will even defend Mr. Arminger in court. I know of at least 3 teens on skateboards who are a terrible problem and menace to the public at Solomons and Lusby, on residenial and commercial properties. Don't those teens have a home? Don't their parents even care? Well I bet they do now after one being shot at! OR MAYBE NOT. I have tenants at Solomons who have called the cops on them many times. I've seen the cops stop them all in parking lots for harrassing people. I'm proud of Mr. Arminger.
I was listening to the radio this morning when "residents" called in saying the same thing, how these boys have continually harassed the people who live there but calling the cops apparently didn't do anything but make the kids more determined.
I've known two very nice elderly men who turned nasty when they were continually harassed over an extended period of time, so I can understand how Mr. Arminger "lost it". The saddest part is that apparently there were many opportunities that could have stopped it, preventing the continued harassment and finally the shooting...
Considering all the people claiming to call these kids in, it makes one wonder how many calls actually went into the Sheriffs Dept.
June
frequentflier
happy to be living
How many times do you think this man tried to "reason" with these little pukestains? How many times do you think other people in the complex tried to talk to these foul mouthed brats only to be told to F off? These kids have been a problem for a number of years in this complex as well as
all over Solomons Island. I am glad someone had the nerve to stand up to them.
Shooting the kid may not have been the answer but a combination of frustration and anger pushed the guy over the edge.
kwillia
n/a
It's disgusting that people are willing to dismiss the kids as just a nuisance when there are many who live there and have come forward stating their fears and concerns... many of whom were concerned enough to call the police time and time again. I do not condone what that man did, but I do have sympathy for him that he was pushed over the edge and felt he had no recourse other than to take matters into his own hands.CREResident
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Posters talk about making up excuses for the teens... but plenty of people are making excuses for Armiger. I've had many people piss me off to a great degree many times in my life... but I have NEVER grabbed my gun and went after someone firing my weapon at them. That would be insane. There are reasonable ways to deal with a situation like this... without grabbing a gun and firing it when there is no immediate threat and the police are close enough to hear that gun shot.
CREResident
New Member
The Madman
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. He is not hampered by a sense of humour or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is the more logical for losing certain sane affections. Indeed, the common phrase for insanity is in this respect a misleading one. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. -- Chesterton
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. He is not hampered by a sense of humour or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is the more logical for losing certain sane affections. Indeed, the common phrase for insanity is in this respect a misleading one. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. -- Chesterton
frequentflier
happy to be living
I agree that shooting at the kid wasn't the right thing to do. And plenty of people have pissed me off and I haven't shot them. We all have our breaking points, though, and it sounds like this guy found his.
We may never know what else was happening in his life at the time of this incident. He may have just found out a loved one had a terminal disease. He may have been having a flashback from Viet Nam. He may have had other stressors in his life that contributed to his emotional state of mind that day.
blah blah blah -----NO EXCUSE!!!!!!!
PrepH4U
New Member
Really Christine? You need to bow out gracefully and stfu!
Vince
......
I really don't think there are all that many on here that would really grab a gun and start shooting, not unless the little punks starting shooting first. And don't be stupid enough to believe they wouldn't. Fifteen years old? Yep, there are plenty of them running around with guns and no brains. But most on here have heard and seen too many instances that young punks like this go after the old and get away with hurting them, robbing them, or killing them. It happens and you know it. Quit defending these types, they really aren't worth it. I used to think that kids like this were worth salvaging. Lived too many years to know it's not worth trying anymore.
Dye Tied
Garden Variety Gnome
That is what the news is reporting, he was already outside the gate with his back to the Clint Eastwood wannabe.