Protester Shot in Head, Run Over in Genoa

Alec Ramsdell aramsdell at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 21 12:55:37 PDT 2001


--- Jeffrey Fisher <jfisher at igc.org> wrote:
> um, what?
>
> > But if a mob of people were
> > throwing rocks at me I would have no
> > compunctions about shooting them.
>
> questions begged by yor hypothetical: why do you
> have a gun? why do yor
> opponents not? what is the significance of the
> disparity in how you are all
> armed (or not armed)? why are they throwing rocks?
> why are they throwing
> them *at you*? why are you there in the first place?
> who really is
> threatening whom? how could rock-throwing be
> avoided? how could the guards
> be avoided? what are all the things you can do
> besides shooting at people?

And two shots to the head is clearly not a *defensive* shooting.

Alec

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