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The only way to stop a bad kid from ringing doorbells is a good guy with a gun.

That kid was no angel.

I'm sure I missed some right-wing thought-stopping platitudes, I may be back later with more wisdom.

In Louisiana in the early 90s a Japanese foreign exchange student was shot during a Halloween party when he accidentally knocked on the wrong house in costume. When he walked away, the home owner came out with a revolver and yelled 'freeze'. He didn't understand what that meant since his English was poor and he walked towards them and was then shot. He probably also thought that he DID go to the right house and as it was Halloween it was probably a gag.

The home owner was acquitted, but it caused an international incident.

Those are different adults saying those things. The gun nuts tend to instill irrational fear in their kids that they should never leave the house unless they are prepared for life-and-death warfare. It’s a sad cycle of paranoid abuse :(

Those words alone should be forfeiting your right to own a firearm.

If you don't want someone to ring your doorbell then why the fuck do you have one? They are usually only secured with two screws. Fuck that guy, he needs to be shot back.

Good news is that this idiot can no longer threaten kids (or anyone). He was kicked out of the National Weather Association after his asinine posts. He then seemingly died shortly after. I haven't found a cause of death yet.

Do none of these idiots have any real threat assessment?

More that they've got a house full of guns, an ear full of "crime wave!!!" media, and a not insignificant amount of mental illness.

"If someone rings my doorbell and runs away, they're targeting my house for a burglary" is a thing lots of people unironically believe.

Or are they so desperate to shoot someone that they just wanna blast some kid and say they feared for their lives?

Definitely elements of that, too. But in the sense of feeling like they want to be the hero of a story they've heard on Talk Radio.

A lot of these people are legit delusional.

None whatsoever. They're bloodthirsty savages. Itching for any excuse to murder someone.

I give it 2 weeks before the shooter is being interviewed on Fox. Whinging about how he's really the victim of some nebulous "woke mob" that drug him online for murdering a child.

Or are they so desperate to shoot someone that they just wanna blast some kid and say they feared for their lives?

It is exactly this. These are deeply violent people who are actively seeking any reason to hide behind the excuse of self defense.

It is wild to me that someone hears their doorbell and their instinct is to grab their gun

Seriously, my first instinct (like any normal person's) when I hear my doorbell is to pause whatever I'm watching or playing, turn off the speakers, and slowly and silently creep towards the door to peek through the peephole and see if whoever rang without scheduling first has already gone away and I can go back to my normal life.

What am I going to do with a gun, shoot the bastard and cause even more people to come to my door‽

Fox news fucked up this whole generation.

At least they have guns so they can resist a hypothetical tyrannical gove-... Never mind.

So safe. This time it was a kid, but next time he might not be so lucky. It could be a delivery driver! The mailman! Someone getting the wrong address! Scary scary times we live in.

Once saw a mother with kids in her car, drive past another group of kids playing soccer in the street. She's sped past them yelling, "next time I'll just run you idiots over!" (not a busy street at all!) maybe one car every 10 min. Those kids don't play soccer any more.

Everyone is entitled to their day in court. This is a cop doing a good job of cutting out any possibility of bullshit weaseling by pointing out that the possibility of self defense doesn’t even need to be debated or discussed.

It just means they don't even need to consider if it could have been in self defense because it was ruled out at step 1. Not that if it passed step 1 it would be guaranteed that it was.

They just want to head off that entire line of defense from the get go.

The Houston police department have not released the identity of the boy or the occupant of the home, but said a middle-aged man has been arrested and several weapons were later recovered from the home.

It happened on Sunday; that's all the consequences that have happened thusfar. There will likely be a trial, but the justice system moves a lot more slowly than it would have to for there to be anything more than that yet.

This just in: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/us/houston-ding-dong-ditch-shooting-arrest

He's been charged with murder

So doesn't that person have any deliveries or visitors or anything? Imagine ordering a pizza and then being shocked when some anxious guy (anxious because they got tons of deliveries to make on a deadline or be fired) shows up?

Three teenagers rang his door as a prank, and his response is to get in his car, follow them, and then mow them down? Totally reasonable. He was clearly just defending himself. 🙄