(June 4, 2013 at 1:26 pm)ideologue08 Wrote:(June 4, 2013 at 1:18 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: You're welcome to your opinion of course. For me, it's a question of "what can I live with?". If the asshole escalates to physical violence (as he has done many, many times in the past), and I do nothing to prevent it, can I live with that decision?I'm just happy nobody pulled a gun out, something which is apparently common in the US. Pointing a weapon like a baseball bat at someone can get very ugly, so I'm glad things worked out in the end. I made a thread about a man who was shot dead by the FBI for apparently charging one of them with a broomstick/pole http://atheistforums.org/thread-19157.html It turns out he was unarmed but still, you get the point.
Regarding it being a domestic dispute, these people are family to me, and I to them. More so than the abusive ex. The only reason he is even in the picture is because of the custody agreement involving her 13 year old. The other son has disowned him and wants nothing to do with him.
The guy is a sperm donor with a court order, taking an opportunity to revisit terror on two of his former victims, not part of a domestic unit.
Calling it a domestic dispute is laughable.
A broomstick can be a weapon, every bit as much as a bat. He was hardly unarmed. Not saying it was a legitimate shoot, though. Not enough information for that.
