{"id":129553,"date":"2016-01-24T04:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T11:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/24\/fear-and-guns-who-after-all-needs-compassion.html"},"modified":"2016-02-08T17:33:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:33:45","slug":"fear-and-guns-who-after-all-needs-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/24\/fear-and-guns-who-after-all-needs-compassion.html","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Guns: who, after all, needs compassion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not long after I moved to Colorado, I was driving into the office, spun out in the snow, and ended up in a ditch. I breathed really<\/i> heavily (having done a full Speed Racer on the Interstate) and then wondered what the hell I was going to do.<\/p>\n

A guy in a pickup pulled up a few minutes later, hooked me up, pulled me out of the ditch, then drove off. He was a Good Samaritan who helped me out, and I will be eternally grateful to him.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, ammosexuals seems to argue that strangers are out to kill you, charity is a socialist sham, and government is the enemy. So it's hardly surprising that a guy with a gun would decide that people coming to help him after his car slid off the road were a mortal threat that meant he had to kill or be killed.<\/p>\n

What a world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nGood Samaritan Shot and Killed by Driver Stuck in Snow, Police Say – ABC News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Not long after I moved to Colorado, I was driving into the office, spun out in the snow, and ended up in a ditch. I breathed really heavily (having done a full Speed Racer on the Interstate) and then wondered what the hell I was going to do. 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