Ed Christian and Ladarius Phillips allegedly shot & killed

[JR4AU]

I'm full of rage.  Full of it.  But how do you get so mad that blowing up a room full of people who didn't do shit to you becomes the rational reaction?

I don't get it, but it's common.  Get dissed?  Go get yo gat and start sprayin' the joint with lead.  Someone looks at yo ho wrong?  Go get a 9 and off him while he's in a crowded club. 

I tried a case one time, actually 4 times because there were 4 defendants.  2 dudes verbally "get in to it" in the club, and one says "Ima break that chopper out on yo ass" as he was asked to leave.  He apparently got his buds in on it too.  As they drove out of the lot (you have to imagine a block building with extension cords run to it for power from the trailer next door and a dirt lot big enough to squeeze in maybe 15 cars) they stopped on the road and 2 got out of the car and started firing in to the crown about 40 yards away, one with a pistol, and one with an AK47.  At the side of the lot, another of the 4 grabs his pump 12 gauge and starts spraying the crowd.  At least 2 from the crowd returned fire but hit nothing, one was a probation officer with his service weapon.  5 people shot, one in the head, and he's not been right since, and two lost legs below the knee.  Both young men.  When I asked one of the victim what he and the other guy had "got in to it about" he said, "I don't really recall".  This victim is also a defendant in another case where he's charged with shooting in to an occupied dwelling at a certain guy, and I ask him "why do you and Frank shoot at each other" and he replies "cuz we just don't see eye to eye."  No shit!  One with permanent brain damage, and two with lost legs and nobody can say what the verbal altercation was even about.  And then another one shoots at a guy that also has shot at him cuz "they don't see eye to eye". 

Can any of you explain it?  I mean I deal with the legal end of this shit all the time, and that's not the only "club shooting" or "party shooting" I've tried, but I'll be damned if I know why they do it, when they themselves can't even tell me.  Beats all I ever saw or imagined! 

[Vandy Vol]

Can any of you explain it?

[Kaos]

We strapped.  Represent

This is how people are raised today.  NOT firing into a crowd is a sign of weakness. 

[chinook]

I'm full of rage.  Full of it.  But how do you get so mad that blowing up a room full of people who didn't do shit to you becomes the rational reaction?

tomato on your burger, sir?

[Kaos]

tomato on your burger, sir?

Death sentence. 

[Tiger Wench]

Ok. Enough. Who or what the hell is HABOTN?

[wesfau2]

Ok. Enough. Who or what the hell is HABOTN?

I'm relatively sure that that's Clay Travis.

[Kaos]

Ok. Enough. Who or what the hell is HABOTN?

Hottest Auburn Blog On The Net.

Jay Tate.  Montgomery Advertiser.

http://madvertiserblogs.com/HABOTN/

[wesfau2]

Hottest Auburn Blog On The Net.

Jay Tate.  Montgomery Advertiser.

http://madvertiserblogs.com/HABOTN/

I stand corrected.

Doesn't Travis have a blog with a similarly cumbersome "acronym"?

[Kaos]

I stand corrected.

Doesn't Travis have a blog with a similarly cumbersome "acronym"?

OKTC

OutkKcked The Coverage

[RWS]

See this is whats wrong with much of the younger folks now. People do shit and feel like they shouldn't
be held responsible for it because it was someone elses fault anyways. Complete disconnect.

Exactly. I was thinking about this the other day. Society has just gone to shit. When I was a kid, either you talked the it out or somebody got their ass stomped, and it was over. No big deal. Everything was all good the next day. Now? You have all of these pussies who have to go kill somebody over something completely stupid. And to them, they just don't understand how they can be in trouble. Ridiculous.

Now all of you kids stay off of my damn lawn!

[GH2001]

OKTC

OutkKcked The Coverage

Even though Travis pissed me off with the Newton stuff and other things, I like his writing far more than I ever will that Tate hack.

"It all da white man's fault yo"  - until they get out of this mentality and start looking in the mirror (as Bill Cosby has told them to do), this will keep happening. As long as you make an excuse, it gives an out to get away with bad behavoir. You pull a gun and you pull the trigger, its all on YOU.

[AUChizad]

@HABOTN
Leonard wasn't asked to make a plea. Susan James is Leonard's court-appointed attorney, though she wasn't here.

[AUChizad]

Even though Travis pissed me off with the Newton stuff and other things, I like his writing far more than I ever will that Tate hack.

"It all da white man's fault yo"  - until they get out of this mentality and start looking in the mirror (as Bill Cosby has told them to do), this will keep happening. As long as you make an excuse, it gives an out to get away with bad behavoir. You pull a gun and you pull the trigger, its all on YOU.

Come on...seriously?

Tate irks me from time to time, but the guy's a journalist. Clay Travis is a blogger. Pretty much a Sports By Brooks wanna-be, and nothing more.

[GH2001]

@HABOTN I repeat, there was NO tear gas used.

 

[GH2001]

Come on...seriously?

Tate irks me from time to time, but the guy's a journalist. Clay Travis is a blogger. Pretty much a Sports By Brooks wanna-be, and nothing more.

Sorry, but Travis is a better writer. And being as he is a blogger and about as factually accurate as Gay Tate, should say a lot about Tate. Just saying....

[AUChizad]

Where was Clay Travis during all this? Tweeting about Mad Men and NBA finals.

The extension of his "coverage" was about 2 or 3 retweets from Cole Cublic.

I'm not saying Tate is perfect, in fact I've griped plenty in this very thread about him.

But come on, dude. Travis is no more skilled a writer than Webb Hudson.

[Saniflush]

But come on, dude. Travis is no more skilled a writer than Webb Hudson.

You shut your dirty whorish mouf.

[Snaggletiger]

Webb Hudson?  What a goofy name.  Who the hell is that?

[GH2001]

Where was Clay Travis during all this? Tweeting about Mad Men and NBA finals.

The extension of his "coverage" was about 2 or 3 retweets from Cole Cublic.

I'm not saying Tate is perfect, in fact I've griped plenty in this very thread about him.

But come on, dude. Travis is no more skilled a writer than Webb Hudson.

Travis isn't the beat writer for our school. Tate is a "beat writer" for Auburn for the paper of the State Capitol. Of course, I expect him to be more involved. He's just a typical reporter, to me, looking for that scoop at any expense, even if it means making up shit he has no clue about. By the way of beat writer homer types, I would prefer Phillip or Goldberg. Even Hokansen (sp??). Just a personal preference I guess.

While not always deep in substance (since he IS a blogger), Travis' articles are witty and well written. You can tell the dude is sharp, even if it borderlines on being a smartass. Doesn't hurt that he pokes fun of Bammers a lot too. He does his job (IMHO) better than Tate does his.

Webb Hudson is a god.