Sami Did What?/Two Views on Shooting

From a GoFundMe page: 

Sami and her family experienced a tragedy on Christmas Day. Due to the tragedy they are needing assistance with funding. They are a very lovely family and would give you the very shirt off their back. If you cannot give them (sic) please share any help is appreciated.

Sami experienced a what? Nice the way the GoFundMe page doesn't mention what the "tragedy" was. The page has now been up 14 days and has a $60,000.00 goal. So far, $10.00 has been pledged from one donor. Sounds like ten dollars too much to us.

(There was also a "Justice for Andrew" GoFundMe page, but someone had the good sense and taste to get it removed.)

Now, some thoughts from our D. Claytor on the recent shooting in Hamilton, Alabama:

From the facts presented in the article the only thing wrong it appears Andy did was fire warning shots. That is not legal. If he didn't start the fight and felt his life in danger (a reasonable assumption based on the article) then it sounds like justifiable homicide. Whenever there is a shooting and the deceased didn't have a firearm there is a lot of malarkey about the dead being "unarmed". More people are killed by "unarmed" people than are killed by rifles in the U.S. It only takes one good punch to kill or permanently cripple someone. The only thing I can see that he did illegal was to fire warning shots. That's the kind of TV show nonsense that gets people into trouble.


And some very different thoughts from our Bailey Quarters:

So Sami was afraid of her ex-boyfriend? But she didn't mind arguing with him over a child's coat? Wait, she knew her current squeeze had a gun. Wasn't that a convenient way to get rid of two unwanted men in her life? If Andy does get out of this a free man, he needs to run in the opposite direction from Sami!



Our take? The one point that we found riveting was the comment on warning shots. Aren't they good things? Apparently not.

It seems that if you fire a warning shot, you don't really believe your life is in danger. That may be the Marion County district attorney's rationale to charge Andrew Cochran with Capital Murder. So if a grand jury goes by the letter of the law, Andy has lost his girl, his gat, and his gig and is in for a very long stay in his new accommodations.