I live in a rural area; the responses from the Sheriff's Department over time is telling

[Fla_Democrat]

59. So, that's a yes?

Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of Ida B. Wells, and have posted her quote more times than I can recall at this moment.

" Of the many inhuman outrages of this present year, the only case where the proposed lynching did not occur, was where the men armed themselves in Jacksonville, Fla., and Paducah, Ky, and prevented it. The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched." https://brian.carnell.com/articles/2017/ida-b-wells-on-gun-ownership/

I've always found it interesting that she specifically mentioned the Winchester rifle, which in the time of her quote, would have been a weapon of war, a military grade weapon. Pretty sure it was the same rifle Captain Nathan Algren was hawking in the beginning of The Last Samurai. But, I digress.....

The part of her quote... " and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give." doesn't seem to fit in this situation. Or at least, there are too many questions raised to say it in fact, does.

Clearly a deputy went out there, unless the dispatcher is clairvoyant, and knew what reason the shooter would claim. I am sure the shooter denied aiming at others property, and it becomes a he said/he said. Should the department put someone out on stake out? Maybe set up a chronograph to detect any high velocity objects flying through the air? With out physical evidence, a broken window, a slug in a car or house siding, a bleeding person, there is nothing to act on.

That being said..... maybe, if it is wrong for squirrel hunter to shoot indiscriminately, it is just as wrong for home owner to "stand on your own property and shoot in the direction of the squirrel hunter." But, I'm new here, still learning the rules governing firearms in good ol DU:GD.