Click the blue scroll bar at the right in the box to read the final words posted on the Twitter account of a in San Ramon Wednesday afternoon.
Last Tweets of Hayward Man Shot in Jewelry Store Robbery
Kibrom Bairu's Twitter account talked of guns and money.
He ended his own life.
you play the game, you pay the price, dead or alive. https://twitter.com/#!/iTearItUp
Also, I'd love to know what his criminal past was, as he mentions having to go to court back in April. One less person that my tax dollars have to support in prison
I have never liked guns and it is horrible that Bairu died because he was shot, but people should be able to defend themselves. Maybe the jewelry store owner could have used a stun gun? But then Bairu's friends could just come back during the trial to silence the store owner from testifying... Their actions and the actions of anyone who rob others hurt all of us and they really should be stopped.
I am not suggesting Sharia by any means - but there are some sound values in religion that we ignore at our own and others peril.
Ever heard of the Hi-Fi robbery in Ogden Utah? The Hi-Fi murders were the brutal killings of three people during an armed robbery at a home audio store called the Hi-Fi Shop in Ogden, Utah, on April 22, 1974. Five people had been held hostage and tortured, but two survived with severe injuries. All were bound and forced to drink Drano (a corrosive drain cleaner). One victim had a pen stomped into his ear, and a teenage girl was repeatedly raped before being flung face-down on the floor and shot in the head. The crime became notorious for the violence inflicted against the victims and accusations of racial bias in the Utah judiciary. One victims suffered severe burns inside his mouth, throat, on his face as well as extensive, permanent brain damage. Another suffered burns and permanent damage to his hearing and balance due to having a ballpoint pen rammed into his head. The murderers had planned to kill anyone they found in the store; they brought Drano with them in order to force the victims to drink it. Activists insisted that the death penalty was a result of bias because the race of the victims was white, while the offenders were black.
I don't recall this crime being a matter of race - except in the eyes of those who believe criminal actions are excused if committed by one's own race or members of specific other races whom they apparently believe are incapable of self-control or responsibility. Interesting thing I have noticed over the years. White people rarely have much of a problem sending a white murderer to death row. The juror attitude seems to be that no one is happy about anyone's death, but there are some things that just move you outside the pale of society forever. American Indians had little problem with it either where I grew up. There might be sadness that someone was into alcohol or drugs - but when Perry Smith was headed to the hangman there wasn't much concern on the part of the tribes, other than his being a disgrace to his own people and an embarrassment to Indian people. The Paiute haven't been seen expressing much in the way of sympathy for Richard Allen Davis. The reality was a lot of people went through hell as children, but didn't see that as an excuse to make others' lives hell.
Why is there so much "compassion" for those who commit atrocities, and none for the survivors?
One reason that those who murder whites face the death penalty more often than those who kill blacks is that the attitudes of the victims families are often considered by prosecutors. Many blacks do not favor the death penalty; some only favor it if the murderer of their loved one was not black. There have actually been studies of these questions, although it is very hard to get funding for research that doesn't follow the "common knowledge" that supposedly blacks are more harshly punished than whites, etc.
BTW - as a rule selling drugs is a little different than shoving a weapon in someone's face.
The rate of black violent crime would be around the same as the rate of white violent crime if the illegitimacy rates were the same. It seems fatherless boys of all races make up an extraordinary portion of those who commit violent crimes. Given the rising white illegitimacy rates, we have every indication that the gap in violent crime rates between the races will decline and approach equality. This should make those who believe that disproportionate policing and sentencing lead to disproportionate black and white crime rates very happy. Unfortunately, everyone else will have to suffer as well.
Please stay out of Dallas, Dallas has some very nice people, and they are sick and tired of PC types trying to "escape" crime and violence and bringing with them the very attitudes that excuse and encourage it - everything from blaming the victims, to excusing violence, to gun control that disarms the victims is not exactly a big mover in Texas. Californians have already ruined Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada - so please stay the heck out of Arizona, Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Idaho, the Dakotas, etc.
No one wants to discuss the fact that regardless of race, the major factor that can be used to predict future violent crime is being raised in a fatherless environment. Eliminate the illegitimacy factor, and the racial differences between blacks and whites evaporate.
I live in a diverse area. I know the thugs, and I know the good people. They don't come color coded - what I know is that thug life is heavily promoted and accepted more in some groups than in others. Some families, regardless of ethnicity, never believe their child can do wrong.
Please note that although some groups tolerate thug life more than others, it doesn't make everyone, or even most people in those groups thugs. Far from it.
You will notice that police carry both types of weaponry.