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TwilightGardener

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2. Read about that. We've helped several stranded motorists in the past in my family,

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Fri Jul 31, 2015, 04:34 PM

Jul 2015

especially in the rural Great Plains where there's not a lot of traffic or when there's a blizzard and someone slides off the road. You can't just leave them there--it could be life or death. This will make people leery about helping strangers, and that's a shame.

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Good Samaritan Family Gunned Down Trying to Help Stranded Driver in Montana [View all] 7962 Jul 2015 OP

:( shenmue Jul 2015 #1

Read about that. We've helped several stranded motorists in the past in my family, TwilightGardener Jul 2015 #2

I agree, it's a tragedy for that family and it creates a negative ripple effect Uncle Joe Jul 2015 #20

I got nothing but Sadness. BlueJazz Jul 2015 #3

... magical thyme Jul 2015 #4

Wow... not even a botched robbery or anything. Just 'fuck you, die'... AtheistCrusader Jul 2015 #5

It was a botched robbery passiveporcupine Jul 2015 #16

And the next step in this ............................. turbinetree Jul 2015 #6

Didn't help the armed cop in California who was killed approaching a car this morning.n/t jtuck004 Jul 2015 #11

A legal immigrant from Mexico with permanent residence status OnlinePoker Jul 2015 #7

He will have a rationalization.He says we should only let the "good ones" in, so jtuck004 Jul 2015 #15

I would be willing to guess that one of his prerequisites d_legendary1 Jul 2015 #18

no.words. hopemountain Jul 2015 #8

"An armed society is a polite society." --- right! n/t Binkie The Clown Jul 2015 #9

If only guns were hanging from the trees. --NRA logic. nt valerief Jul 2015 #10

I liked it better when the popular ethos was ToxMarz Jul 2015 #13

Mever ever forget that guns make us safer. SheilaT Jul 2015 #12

The NRA says all good samaritans should be armed . geretogo Jul 2015 #14

Is the gun ok? We need to make sure the gun is ok right now. Darb Jul 2015 #17

So very sad when people try to help and are murdered for it. Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #19