Illinois Man Shot And Killed His Neighbor Who Was Using A Leaf Blower

Status
Not open for further replies.
fuzzybuddy said:
If any jackass can get a gun, why are you surprised jackasses are using them?
Click to expand...
But, just any jackass can’t get a gun. This is why in many states, buyers have to clear a background check to make sure that they aren’t a felon or are on a psychiatric database. However, there are states where no background checks are required and states that allow open carry without a permit. There are states that doesn’t even require a gun safety course before purchasing a gun.

Different states have different gun laws. If you don’t like the laws your state has, start a petition drive to collect enough signatures to get your proposed change on the ballot for the next election. Become proactive, instead of complaining. Even if it fails or you can’t get enough signatures, at least you can say “I tried.”
 

Myrtle said:
murder comes from the human heart, not the inanimate object whether it is a gun or a rock. The problem is the lack of human values, sometimes aggravated by mental illness.
Click to expand...
I agree with you, and killing someone with a rock is just as evil as killing with a gun.

However it is much easier to kill with a gun, the military moved on from rocks thousands of years ago, adopting guns hundreds of years ago. One person can much more easily and effectively kill with a gun than a rock. But I think you know that.

If the gun murderers had only access to rocks some would still succeed in killing, but far fewer. Stephen Paddock certainly could not have killed 60 people throwing rocks... maybe a couple, but not 60.
 
Gas powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers under the gun now? Figuratively and literally. Really? Tell you what, they're gonna have to pry my gas powered lawn mower from my cold dead hands if they want it.

Seriously. Give me a break. There are a lot more pressing issues than haranguing residential lawn mower users. Don't know about the rest of the country, or even the rest of this state. But most people here in Houston don't even cut their own lawns anymore. Even fewer even own a lawn mower or leaf blower. I have a gas-powered leaf blower. Seldom use it. Rake residue instead. For that I get warning letters from the HOA threatening me with confiscation of my home. Go figure.

It's all about deflecting anything and everything away from the insanity of gun ownership and the so-called 2nd Amendment Rights and 'Stand your Gound' laws embraced by radicals. Sick of it I am.
 

ArnoldC said:
I have a gas-powered leaf blower. Seldom use it. Rake residue instead. For that I get warning letters from the HOA threatening me with confiscation of my home
Click to expand...
What? You get threatened with losing your home for raking?
 
Myrtle said:
One thing I find interesting in this thread is we don't seem to be talking about what would make someone shoot a neighbor over a leaf blower. Sure, it's irritating but death? We see these kinds of crimes a lot more than we used to. Why are so many people on the edge of committing murder?
Click to expand...
There are quite simply more leaf blowers now, which create a huge amount of noise and air pollution, plus blowing their crap all over other people's properties.

Their noise exceeds 110 decibels which causes potential hearing loss to neighbors. Their incomplete combustion of fuel creates more air pollution in 30 minutes than driving a pickup truck 4,000 miles. They stir up and blow leaves, grass clippings, dirt, small debris, fecal matter and pesticides and spread it around onto neighbor's properties. My own yard has been covered with debris and garbabe from leaf blowers numerous times. I completely understand why people have had enough of them.

If leaf blowers were banned, then the problem would be solved.
 
Last edited:
John cycling said:
There are quite simply more leaf blowers now, which create a huge amount of noise and air pollution, plus blowing their crap all over other people's properties. If leaf blowers were banned, then the problem would be solved.
Click to expand...
Is this a serious answer?
The problem is the leaf blower? 😳
And some people think I have a low tolerance level!! Lol. 🙃
 
Its the intent to kill, not the weapon. If someone has the intent to kill they will using what ever is available, I'm not talking about school situations but rather the incident of this thread. If the neighbor who committed the crime didn't have a gun he could use a rock or 2x4 or fireplace poker etc to accomplish it. And that's true in a lot of cases if the intent to kill is there. Many people have been bludgeoned to death or stabbed or or strangled. Then there is the bombings where many were killed.
 
rwb said:
Thank you, Myrtle. It is a shame your brilliant comments will fall on deaf ears. Too many people just can not face reality!
Click to expand...
Some decades ago we in Sydney had a spate of idiots throwing rocks down onto freeways. That was an easy problem to deal with. All overpasses now have barriers making it impossible to target cars below.

Now, how to keep children save in their classrooms? Realistically.
 
Warrigal said:
It is wrong that US citizens cannot purchase firearms in states where they are not residents?
What happens at a gun fair?
Click to expand...
Last time I bought a hand gun it was at a pawn shop in Utah. At the time I had a Wyoming driver's license. The gun dealer said he could not sell a handgun to a non-resident. Then he asked if there was anything I could say that would lead him to believe I was a Utah resident. So I told him I was and he sold me the gun, no more questions... That was a few years back, hopefully things have gotten stricter... I don't know.
 
ArnoldC said:
Yep. Deflect and deny. Place blame anywhere and everywhere, other than the absolute undeniable problem. Proliferation of guns in the hands of incompetents.
Click to expand...
I honestly don’t wish to personally insult anybody here

From my understanding, this is a international forum and I thought we ALL had an equal right to our opinion as long as we respect each other while doing so.
That’s my understanding.

There are countless threads on this forum made about various people picking up a gun and fatally losing it on others. If the thread is out there, I expect that the members posting these want to talk about it and they do but only if members are talking about it in a way that deflects any blame on their choice to own guns.


You can be as polite and respectful as possible and guaranteed, you WILL be shut down. And people here think there’s no biased clans or members here .
This is a biased clan right here.

People & guns being the common denominator in all of these threads made to discuss but heaven forbid if you connect the two together. The hate instantly comes out like it is right now.

I don’t get it. Why add so many of the same types of threads asking why this keeps happening if you don’t actually want to discuss it?

The clan directs these topics!
Always!!!
 
John cycling said:
There are quite simply more leaf blowers now, which create a huge amount of noise and air pollution, plus blowing their crap all over other people's properties.

Their noise exceeds 110 decibels which causes potential hearing loss to neighbors. Their incomplete combustion of fuel creates more air pollution in 30 minutes than driving a pickup truck 4,000 miles. They stir up and blow leaves, grass clippings, dirt, small debris, fecal matter and pesticides and spread it around onto neighbor's properties. My own yard has been covered with debris and garbabe from leaf blowers numerous times. I completely understand why people have had enough of them.

If leaf blowers were banned, then the problem would be solved.
Click to expand...
Indeed, you make good points. Around here most, if not completely all, leaf blowers are in the hands of lawn services. Who, by the way, have no responsibility for their actions. Cash only, no identifiable 'business.' Completely untouchable. Yeah, our neighborhood sounds like a commercial lawn cutting and service with noise and pollution 7-days a week. Beginning a first light and not ending until dusk-or later.

Used to be residential living was a haven from the day-to-day. Anymore, lawn services, USPS, UPS, FedEx, Amazon and who-the-heck-ever ad nauseum is like living in a commercial free-fire zone. No end to the noise and pollution and constant never-ending coming and going. The commercial lawn mowers in use sound like an attack helicopter. Gone is the reassuring sound of a guy cutting grass on Saturday morning.

Not conding the actions of the shooter. But, by god, at some time there has to be an end to the insanity.
 

Status
Not open for further replies.

Back
Top