No one will blame Fox News, not even partially blame Fox, for this horrible tragedy. [View all]

[Bucky]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/warrant-23-year-old-man-fatally-shot-while-driving/nT8rm/ emphasis added.

[font size="4"]Friends: Man shot dead after pulling into wrong driveway[/font]

LILBURN, Ga. — Lilburn police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man.

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The friends said they pulled into the driveway and saw a man peer out the window. They said they waited in the car for a bit and then the man, Phillip Sailors, 69, came out of the home with a handgun, firing a round into the air.

“The guy came out. He went in again and he came out with a gun in his hand and he shot into the air,” 15-year-old passenger Yeson Jimenez said.

The friends said that's when they tried leaving the house, and said Sailors pointed the gun at the car and shot Rodrigo Diaz, 22, who was driving the car. An arrest warrant said Sailors had a .22-caliber pistol. The passengers said Sailors never asked what they were doing there.

“’Shut up.’ That’s the only thing that came out of his mouth,” passenger Gandy Cardenas said.

The friends said Sailors held the rest of the people in the car at gunpoint until police arrived at the home. All three passengers in the car are Parkview High School students.

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Thomas has also learned Sailors is a war veteran and a former church missionary. Sailors' attorney told Thomas that the man believed he and his wife were being attacked.

“He is very distraught over the loss of life from the defense of his home. This incident happened late in the evening hours when he was home with his wife and he assumed it was a home invasion and he maintains his innocence,” the attorney said.

Not to sweep too broadly, but this old fellow thought he was having a home invasion because a group of Hispanic youths, on their way to a party, pulled into his driveway. According to another news source (TPM) the kids were the victims of a GPS navigator error in the car and simply drove to the wrong house. But in the hostile, racially charged paranoia ginned up by Fox News, some elderly folks in suburbia think most Hispanics are criminals.

How come? Because Fox News talking head like Bill O'Reilly & Sean Hannity constantly harp about how illegal aliens from Mexico are likely to criminals, angry, and impossibly for the law to track down. It's barely disguised race baiting on their side and it's not even true. Immigrants, both legal and undocumented, are far less likely to be involved in crime compared to most demographic groups in this country. But logic doesn't matter when Fox earns its ratings by placing their audience under a constant state of fear and whipping up paranoid fantasies.

To be fair, I have no idea what TV shows the tragic and doubtlessly depressed Mr Sailors was watching. I only know something conditioned him to see a car load of Latino kids as a threat to his life and home. And thus he came out shooting. Whoever spooked him won't be blamed; and if it's somebody like Glenn Beck or Fox or Pat Robertson or any number the dozens of fearmongers out there spooking up an audience to earn their daily bread, then their revenue stream won't be slightly disrupted by the moral implosion of one sad old man or the needless murder of a young man with so much to offer society who's not cut off from his future.