Reply #14: Ethel Sanderses in the news [View All]

http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=7092531&nav=1L7t4viX

A week ago, a Jackson woman was killed in a domestic dispute. Monday night, domestic violence ended in death again, and the family of a murdered Jackson woman say police could have stopped her killer. Doris Shavers was shot and killed at her home in the 2100 block of Ludlow Avenue off Woodrow Wilson drive around 9:00 pm.

"That was my best friend, even though she was my daughter," said Ethel Sanders, Shaver's mother.

... Witnesses said it all began just before 9:00 pm, when Phillips pulled a gun on a teenager riding a bike down the street.

"He came out there and chase the boy down the street with the gun. He had the gun right here," said Shaver's Aunt Lavon Day. Family members said Jackson Police responded, questioned Phillips, took away his two guns, but then gave them right back.

"They took two guns, gave two guns back one that was legal and one they knew he didn't have registered gave the guns back to him then told him Today's you're lucky day," said Shaver's brother Clifton Hopkins. Family members say once officers left, Phillips went inside the home and turned the gun on Shavers. "As soon as the door shut you can hear, pop, pop,pop," said Shaver's brother James Hopkins.

Sorry. Just more news of the weird. The weirdness of gun culture in the USofA.

But back to the Ethel Sanders of the moment.

This may not be the first time that Penn had been there. Recently, a neighbor saw some clothes drying in the sun on Sanders' fence and asked her about them, she said. "They thought it was my grandson," Sanders said. But it wasn't, she said.

Obviously, a homicidal maniac.

Sorry, but I really don't find it rational to anticipate that someone who has broken into your home in order to use your washing machine is about to kill you -- that being the only circumstance in which decent rational people approve of using this kind of force against another human being. And damn -- when he got hold of the gun, after being shot by her, all he did with it was make sure he was able to get away from the woman who had shot him.

I'd say that he's deserving a medal for humanitarian action, and Ms. Sanders needs to be given accommodation somewhere safe and secure from all alarm. Surely that would be a better solution to whatever problems she has than her own:

"Whenever I hear a noise, I just go grab my gun," she said.

Yeesh. My grandmothers would probably have made the guy a sandwich. I like mine better.