"only meant to scare the intruder away"

I have two thoughts on this incident in San Antonio, Texas:

1. If you're not prepared to shoot someone when the situation demands it, you shouldn't be carrying a gun.  If you're not prepared to use it, it may end up being taken away from you and used against you or someone else.
2. It's all very well for the perp's cousin in this case to sputter and bluster about how the perp was in a wheelchair and couldn't possibly have robbed anyone, but it's pretty inarguably clear that's exactly what he was trying to do.  People don't break and enter at 4am because the owner accidentally left a light on when he locked up.  If the perp was in a wheelchair and still tried to burglarize the place in the middle of the night, he must have been pretty damned determined about his choice of a life of crime.

(Crossposted to guns)

The Top Secret Diaries Of ...

meglimir's latest post reminds me that I got friended for no apparent reason by a mysterious Russian a while back, one Natalya Alexanderovich (alexanderovich).  She's never posted, though, or commented in my journal. I'd speculate that it's a for-reading-only journal and that she came to me by way of the widely read james_nicoll, the only common "friend" I have with her, except that she friended me before him.  (At the time she friended me, she only had two other people friended, and James wasn't one of them.)

Her journal is titled "Diary of an International Superspy".  The mystery continues unresolved thus far.  Given the title, I can only speculate that it's all posted in microdot.  :)

Now if I could just enlarge the bottom dot of the colon after "LiveJournal" a few hundred times ....