November 08, 2004

Taxi Driver

by PG

I have mixed feelings about gun control and about the Second Amendment, but stories like this always bring out my knee-jerk desire to make gun ownership much more limited:

A taxi driver killed a drunken passenger when the man refused to get out of his cab, police said. [...]

Smiley, 56, yelled that he needed to make money and couldn't drive Morningstar around all night, one witness told police. According to the report, she said Smiley demanded: "Do you want me to kill you? Do you want to die?"

Police said Smiley fired a gun twice into the pavement toward Morningstar's feet, then twice at Morningstar, and drove off.

I don't suppose there's any way to test people for their ability to distinguish between situations in which gun use would be Appropriate (armed intruders) and Not Appropriate (drunk refusing to move).

November 8, 2004 02:19 PM | TrackBack
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