A note on the Feel Good Stories
I’ve had a couple of complaints this week about how flippant I am in regards to our daily feel good stories. One complaint was about a story we did on Friday about Alvin Lee Jenks who was shot dead when he tried to kick down a homeowner’s door. A fellow claiming to be Alvin’s twin brother called to tell me that I need to be more compassionate. I spend a few hours every day going through hundreds of news stories about people who rape 98-year-old women, kill 6-year-olds, kill cats and dogs, murder cops, shoot dog-walkers, and murder store clerks. My compassion is gone by the time I schedule these stories.
Innocent people murdered and maimed by criminals. When the criminals lose, I rejoice and it makes me feel good. Maybe this twin brother of Alvin Lee should have shown some compassion to his brother before he got to the point where he felt he could enter someone’s home uninvited.
Another fellow complained about a story we wrote last weekend about 21-year-old Tyler Nelson who was also gunned down when he tried to force his way into someone’s home. Now, we find that the deceased may have been drunk – but that doesn’t excuse his behavior, and I wonder if the complainant showed any compassion and tried to keep young Nelson sober before he got so drunk that he could use it as an excuse to violate someone’s property rights, and their right to be secure in their home.
I’m completely on the victims’ sides in these stories. The dead made all of the choices up until their intended victims changed the story line and put them down. Most of the intended victims were just innocent people living their lives the best way they knew how until the criminals entered their lives and they didn’t want to kill anyone, but they didn’t back down from their social contract to protect their families and themselves. These are true American heroes who don’t back down from a challenge that they didn’t invite. These folks are the bulwark against the decaying culture in this country. They are the price of a life of crime. If you hate victims and you hate justice, maybe you shouldn’t read these stories.
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I would feel sorry for the DEAD criminals, and their families; if I was a liberal, peace sign throwing, bleeding heart hippie. I have been robbed, my family and friends have been robbed, and in every single case, the determining factor was that the bad guys put their shoes on and headed out to do whatever it might take to get what was not theirs.
My “Givashitter” has worn out. Sorry folks, but if you fear feeling bad over the death of your criminal family member, best friend or bunk buddy, you might try sending them on a better path in life.
Right there with you, Frankie.
Back in the late 90’s our home was broken into while we were away. My wife’s jewelry was taken, as was mine. Some very expensive estate pieces, and especially some family heirlooms were gone, just like that. That crew also took cash I had stashed away, and some firearms.
A couple years later, I was robbed while walking through a parking lot. Lost my cash and credit cards.
Nowadays I always carry concealed. At home, my daughter is well-trained in how to use both a shotgun and a 9mm in case I’m not there, or they get to me first.
I have no respect for thieves or liars.
To give a slightly different perspective, I’d lay good odds on a particular person I know being killed in the next few years from their poor choices and occasionally criminal behavior.
And when that happens, I will feel sorry. I will feel sorry for any intended victims, and I will also feel sorry for this person’s family members, especially their parents. Contrary to sentiments expressed above, they have tried (and tried, and tried, and tried) to set this person on a better path in life. We like to believe that parents have a lot of influence over how their kids develop, but the simple truth is that’s not always the case.
I have no problem with Jonn posting these stories and firmly believe people are responsible for their own actions. And sure, sometimes family and friends are enablers of criminality. Other times, they’re ‘collateral damage’ to someone’s bad choices – trying to help and being unable to do so. In those cases, I do feel compassion towards all the victims, direct and indirect.
We carry not because we’re licensed, WE HAVE TO. If you don’t want to die, don’t break through my front door, window, etc. We’ve been through it once and I said never again. Keep sharing the good morning stories because I like reading that citizens are standing up to useless punks that would rather steal then work. Don’t like it? STOP READING THE STORIES….
Nah. Liberal, peace sign throwing, bleeding heart pagan hippie and I firmly believe if someone’s gonna be retarded enough to kick down someone else’s door with criminal intent, they deserve a .45 ACP second thought.
YGBSM. Bust down my door = DRT/DOT.
Your journal, your blog, your call. I respect that, and I always shall.
^^^WORD^^^
Need to be more compassionate? Don’t make me laugh. If his brother was such a fine human being he would have exercised more self control, and the homeowner wouldn’t have to exercise sight picture, breath control, and trigger squeeze.
Had a dude come busting through my door once, he is lucky to be alive today and likely has no memory of it. I rushed him as he came in, had him by the throat when I recognised him as a neighbor. Drunk off his ass. Got the wrong floor.
You only have a second to decide. It seems like a lifetime in that moment.
I do have sympathy for Darwin Candidates.
I might have a little sympathy for some of the “Darwin candidates”.
The truly stupid among them didn’t get up that day thinking it was a good day to die.
But I have much greater sympathy for their victims. They didn’t get up thinking they’d have to kill someone that day.
And they’ll have to live with it the rest of their lives.
Don’t change a thing. People who break the law deserve to be dealt with… If that means they get shot/stabbed/beat to death breaking into someone’s home or while conducting a heinous crime… So be it. They get what they deserve. They should have maybe applied themselves when they were younger and made something of themselves… All of this whoa is me BS by criminals makes me sick. These people who take the law into their own hands (by lawfully defending themselves) are only doing the rest of us law abiding citizens a favor by not having to pay for criminals to spend time in prisons. Don’t change a thing about these feel good stories. These stories brighten my day when people actually stand up for themselves and rid the world of these useless, oxygen stealing D-bags. If I’m wrong, God will judge me when I die, but f _ _ _ the rest of them.
“The dead made all of the choices up until their intended victims changed the story line and put them down.”
THIS.
Sir, you keep posting this stuff – if just ONE person reads it (or another account) and decides not to do something terminally stupid, you’ve done a blessing. If those doing the complaining could show a single shred of plausible evidence that the Deceased were somehow coerced/forced into their actions, then they might have some kind of argument, however shallow. Absent that evidence, however, all they have is the cold, unpleasant fact that someone once close to them made a series of Extraordinarily Bad Decisions(TM) in the belief that they would somehow survive said Decisions and prevail. Hard to accept, harder to live with after you’ve watched them get buried. Study thereby, and profit from it.
Mike
If people had less compassion for dirtbags there might be fewer dirtbags. Keep up the good work.
The “Castle Doctrine” is, as I am lead to believe, a legal concept that stretches back to jolly old England from where most of our laws are drawn. You smash down a person’s door, you ain’t there to talk sports and politics. You are there because of a series of bad life choices. And to those milk toast libs who say we should just let it happen, get wrekt mf’rs.
I taught all 3 of my kids that, if someone comes at you, or breaks into the house while you are there, that they are to assume that their life is in peril and take whatever action(s) required to kill or otherwise stop the attackers. Then repeat the same to the cops. “I felt that my life was in danger.”
Always, always, always assume that anyone coming at you intends to kill you and take whatever actions you can to put a stop to the attack. It’s your life. It’s your right.
Then repeat the same to the cops. “I felt that my life was in danger.”
I would add “And I will be happy to cooperate and answer your questions as soon as my attorney gets here.”
Well said Jonn. Compassion is reserved for victims of crime, not the criminals who perpetrate them. Anyone who thinks otherwise has their wires crossed. People need to see good guys with guns CAN make a difference, whilst criminals have no one to blame for their actions but themselves.
At least we have a god idea who the evil twin is/was.
This is one of the MANY reasons why I love you so much.
Compassion? F.T.S. I’ve been on the receiving end of what these useless DRT jackasses do, three times. I do NOT enjoy being on the receiving end of it and I will do whatever is necessary to stop them.
Criminals are not misguided souls. They make a choice, the wrong choice, and got the consequences. Those whiny clowns who want sympathy for them need to grow the EFFF up.
Sounds to me like the complainants need to wash the sand out of their collective va-jay-jay, and shut the fuck up already. I wouldn’t give a shit if it it was a distant relative, or one of my kids who did some some stupid shit like that; that kind of thing is indefenseable.play stupid games, wind stupid prizes.
In December of 2011, a wife of a Naval Officer was in her home alone around 3am when she heard someone repeatedly ringing the door bell. She told the guy through the door that it was the wrong house. The guy then apparently jumped the driveway gate and gained entry via a back door. The lady had called her husband who was deployed overseas and he told her where a gun was. Upon the intruder entering the bedroom, he was tapped in a pretty precise fashion. Incredibly, the lady was criticized by some as the intruder was a society fellow who was apparently a few doors away from the house he meant to visit. I guess the Steeplechase/Junior League crowd thinks that intruders should be chatted with to clarify intentions?
Memo to family members and friends of miscreants:
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
To the surviving family members of the people who get Darwinized: Go fuck yourselves.
Oh wait. I’m sorry. I really should be a touch more compassionate about this. *ahem* Please go fuck yourselves.
As long as we’re polite and add please, all is good.
Exactly! That’s why I corrected myself.
Ahem…
“Why, Bless their hearts!”
There. All better.
If you’re breaking into my house, you’re violating the safety of my family. Yeah, maybe you’re there for the TV, or maybe you’re looking to slit my throat and do unspeakable things to my wife and daughter. The point is, if you’re breaking into my house, I can’t afford to take the chance of giving you the benefit of the doubt, and you’ve forfeited your legal and moral right to it anyway. When you make the decision to break into my house, you are threatening my family by doing so. If you threaten my wife and baby girl, either you’re gonna die, or I am, and rest assured that I WILL go out in a pile of hot brass. If you get past me, you’ll find the pretty little Asian chick this Black Irish white boy married knows her way around a shotgun and an old-school .38 revolver, and will go mama-bear-apeshit if it comes to that.
If you don’t threaten my family, I can guarantee you that I won’t shoot, stab, strangle, bludgeon, or bayonet* you, and neither will Mrs. Whitey. I judge others by the same principle. Sweet widdle Alvin would still be stealing oxygen if he hadn’t decided to do something criminally stupid. Who’s fault is that? In the immortal words of former First Sergeant Malcom Reynolds, “You murdered yourself, boy. I just carried the bullet a while.”
* Fixing bayonets would not be Plan A, or B through Y for that matter, as I know slightly more about bayonet fighting than I do about brain surgery. However, you use what’s immediately available, and the shitbag probably knows even less about it than I do. Who knows, maybe shishkebabbing one asshole on 14 inches of cold steel at the business end of an M1 will convince his buddies that they should go find somebody else to fuck with!
If some relative of some criminal took the time to find my phone number (stalk) to call and attempt to intimidate/lecture me about how their now room-temp kinfolk/spawn was such an upstanding citizen, it shows the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Goes to show there’s a few fucked up chromosomes in that litter.
inbreeding does not work Mother Nature does not like…..
please Jonn don’t change anything….
Stay the course and “F” em. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
Stu
BWAAAAHAAAAHAAAAHAAA! I could picture this:
BHAM BHAM BHAM
Responding sound: DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG
Followed by a: THUD as the body hits the ground
Then a: WHOM CLONK as the empty noggin hits the ground.
Events involving criminals getting gunned down for trying to victimize someone else should go up… preferably up to the number of attempted Alvin Lee Jenks style assault crimes.
Those other folks that were with him who fired back? Hoping that they got caught, or will get caught, and get charged with the death of that retard in addition to the other crimes committed during that incident.
Don’t change a thing. Whenever I get on a discussion related to weapons being allowed at home, I often use those stories to illustrate my point. The media doesn’t ever really talk about the good weapons do, only the big black scary rifles and mass shootings are ever covered.
Don’t change a thing. Whenever I get on a discussion related to weapons being allowed at home, I often use those stories to illustrate my point. The media doesn’t ever really talk about the good weapons do, only the big black scary rifles and mass shootings are ever covered.
“Another fellow complained about a story we wrote last weekend about 21-year-old Tyler Nelson who was also gunned down when he tried to force his way into someone’s home. Now, we find that the deceased may have been drunk”
Did the occupants of the home know he was drunk? Probably the only thing they were certain of was someone was trying to force their way into their home for unknown reasons. Would this person defend Nelson if he had been behind the wheel of a vehicle and crashed into their house by saying “he was drunk, so it’s okie dokie”?
Excuses are like assholes; everyone has one and they all stink.
Don’t change a thing, Jonn.
If anything, your posts show how many defensive shootings occur in this country – in spite of the belief that anyone with guns is someone who is about to snap and go on a rampage.
You, like most others here support and exercise the 2d Amendment.
The takeaway for Alvin’s “twin brother” is to NOT make the same stupid choices his brother did – then move the f@ck on.
Another thought: I read a sheriff quoted as saying “The way you get shot by a concealed weapons permit holder is you point a gun at them”. Same can be said when you break into someone’s home, or try to rob them. You don’t want to get shot, don’t break into their home and don’t rob them.
“Life’s tough; its tougher if you’re stupid.”
God I miss John Wayne
“You’re a hard man, Mr. Anderson.”
Steven Keats?
“Life’s tough; its tougher if you’re stupid.”
One of my favorite lines from the Duke!
Jonn, you just keep going the way you have. What you’re hearing is what LE calls the, “But he’s a good boy,” phenomenon. No matter how bad some scumbag is, to his mama and grandma, he’s always a good boy. It’s just another manifestation of the clan circling the wagons to protect their own and it seems to be a universal human response, no matter how misguided it is. Next time some wailing family member comes at you, just say, “Yeah I know-he was a good boy, right?”
You keep up the good work, Trooper.
Me and Alvie was a great guy! We’d still be eatin skittles and pork rinds if that evil gun hadn’t a shot him in the head! It’s gunz that’s the problem!
“Don’t change a thing, Jonn.”
DITTO THAT! To me, if one forces their way into another’s abode with ill intentions, they;re volunteering to find out just what the denizens of that abode have to defend themselves with, and if it costs the goblin(s) their life, OH WELL, one less punk living at taxpayers’ expense!
To those who sent the complaints:
BEHOLD! The field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren
I had a very poor crop of fucks this year too. The few I harvested are reserved for those deserving. Alvie and his twin ain’t deserving.
These feel good stories should be posted on every jail and prison bulletin board in America, every single day. If criminals only took heed of the dangers of their chosen occupation, they might rethink their career paths.
Hear! Hear! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
I’ve just been reading a great book about how we used to treat scum who prey on innocent people–“The Outlaws,” by Robert Barr Smith (no relation to the poster despite a shared last name). It was a far better time.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Perhaps if mama asshat had paid more attention to what her baby was doing before his arrest record reached two digits, she wouldn’t be crying over how he was a good kid when the news tries to make him out to be the victim after getting shot after breaking into someone’s home.
The only sympathy I feel in these situations is for the victims who will have to go through police questioning and possibly legal action by Dim-o-crap DAs who blame them for shooting the criminal.
oh my sweet Bridget-
bubba: you showed your hurt ass feelings at Veteran’s forum.
We were taught from DAY ONE: “DO WHAT YOUR RANK CAN AFFORD” so you’ll excuse me if i have no sympathies and gives a damn is broke.
If we have any positive, negative or neutral responses for your loss Mr. Jenks: Deal with it. Maybe as Jonn points out- you should have handled your blood better. Before he was handled by someone outside your house.
Survive hell, than return to me and tell me you dont have a different outlook on life.
I am not the artist of life- if you don’t like the colors i paint with: get off your limp thin skinned ass and do something to improve the colors.
if not, say thank you and get the hell out the way.
As you sought us out- you came to “our” home, we dont change our SOP’s because your feelings are hurt.
Jonn has always made his rules clear- even though English is my second language: i can understand them.
Keep up the good work Jonn!
Season’s Greetings!
My Christmas Wish for the whiners.
I wish upon a Merry Merry Christmas that the whiners would take their snivels and sub-juvenile dementia, wrap it all around something sharp and jagged and then jam it up in themselves, repeatedly, until they bleed out.
When those DRT, DOT or end up awaiting accommodations at the local “boys club” are in their right mind, or are not in their right minds because of willful application of mind-altering substances – nope, not gonna feel bad about them.
On the other hand, our family is very grateful that when our family member who is severely autistic got confused and entered someones residence, they did not shoot him, but called for the professional care folks instead. They were living in an area where it was known that the mentally handicapped were housed, so we had that going for us. We were all very aware that it could have gone otherwise, and would have understood if it had. We are just thankful it didn’t.
I understand your love for your autistic family member. However — my grandmother had the neighbor’s boy, who stood somewhere in the area of 6’6” and over 300 lbs, nearly strangle her when she denied him the food in her kitchen, which she found him rummaging through at will one morning. The family tried to keep him home as long as they could; this incident sent him to the state mental hospital.
Your neighbors are not responsible for your family member, if your family member proves unstable and volatile. It is YOUR responsibility to get them into an environment where they are not a danger to themselves or someone else — it is not your neighbor’s job to stop a potential public menace.
Pento,
I agree with you, for the record. However, your experience is not parallel to ours.
To clarify: said family member was/is in a care program for autistic adults. He is not violent/unstable as they are normally reckoned, although – like many of the mentally handicapped – he is extraordinarily strong.
Those in the complex knew that autistic adults were resident in the program there. Therefore, they had an awareness of the possibility that one of those autistic adults would become confused and enter the wrong residence.
The take-away is that there is not a one-size-fits-all cause or response when dealing with the handicapped.
These situations are always conditional. There isn’t a one size fits all type application.
That’s something that needs reminding on occasion.
When I was 6-months pregnant with my eldest son, my husband and I were robbed at work by gun point. I had a gun stuck in my back while listening to them threatening to shoot my husband. Both were high on something.
Fortunately, they left and we weren’t hurt, but the psychological damage was done, it didn’t help that the city police that showed up were clearly disappointed they didn’t have our dead bodies to make their shift more interesting. Callous doesn’t describe their attitude. The off-duty sheriff deputies we hired after that (huge step above the city police!) said I was lucky I was pregnant or I would have been raped too. It turned out that they had committed 60 armed robberies to that point.
I would have slept much better at night had someone taken them out and a lot fewer robberies would have been committed. The world would have been well-rid of them. If their families gave a damn, they would have done something about their criminal behavior long before they robbed us.
I’m very glad that you and your hubby were unscathed, physically, by your ordeal. I have lost friends to both battlefield and scumbags on the streets of the US. A good friend of mine was working her part-time job at a convenience store, one Saturday morning 6 1/2 years ago, in a small town on the very outskirts of the metro area (actually, at that time it was still considered “rural”), when 2 enterprising youths walked in at 6:15am wanting to borrow all the cash in the register. They made their request via a pistol to her face. When they were finally caught, it was told that they were suspected in several home invasions and another armed robbery in other suburbs. It was determined that they would have probably shot her, if they hadn’t been interrupted by someone pulling up to the gas pumps. That was 4 blocks from where I lived, at the time. I was thankful that she wasn’t hurt, but I was, also, determined, from that point forward, that I would not be a victim, and signed up for the class and applied for my carry permit the next week. Been packing ever since.
Keep these stories coming, Jonn. The world is a better place when the Alvin Lee Jenks of society assume room temperature.
I would comment but I am still on Behavioral Probation for 11 days and a wake up. God bless the poor souls that are brutalized by gun toting loons who think their property is more important than another persons life.
The appoint themselves judge and jury as to the intentions of these people. Statistics show that most of these people would nor have been seriously harmed anyway during a mistake by those who had a temporary lapse of judgement.
Who are they to play God and carry out a death sentence with an assault weapon in their hand?
Someone’s probationing my lord…
Kumbaya…
Really nothing I can add that hasn’t already been said. Stay the course. Besides, I can use a good laugh over the DRTs/DOTs.
The only people I feel sympathy for are the ones who were forced to defend themselves.
Taking a life is something that will more than likely haunt them the rest of their days.
I’m sure that if all those victims had a chance to change things they would wish that it never happened.
Fuck the dead criminals and their enabling friends relatives.
And then they wonder why we don’t give a flying fuck about the assholes when they get shot…
The black thugs that pulled this one deserve to be hung by a rope. What a horrible thing to do to another human being, regardless of race…
These people have no respect for their victims, why in the fuck should we give a fuck about them…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/20/u-s-gang-members-linked-mississippi-teen-girl-burned-alive/
To those mothers & other family members of rightly shot criminal thugs who are now weeping and wailing about your poor baby who never did nothing- may I ask a few question?
What kind of terrible, lousy, negligent, horrible, no good person are you? Oh, you never noticed your “baby’s” slide into crime… really? Are you that stupid, or just a plain dishonest? Did you really do all that you could to push them into turning their lives around? Then again, were you such a wonder example of how to live a good life? Apples falling far from trees, and all that.
You want to know something? It wasn’t racism, or cops, or whatever else you’re clinging to in order to avoid the truth. It was you, and your neglect and your selfishness, and your crappy lifestyle choice- all of that means that you helped to kill your “baby”.
Fill out a Hurt Feelings report then see FM 22-102 for proper procedures.
PEBKAC.
I feel sad for the waste of life. That person could have made any number of choices that did not result in them getting killed. Life is precious – hence my anti abortion stance. And I am going to protect the lives of my family and my home ferociously as I can.
Do NOT come between me and mine.
TAH- you are doing a great job – don’t change!!!!
Two men broke into the home of my second cousin and his family to rob them. They ended up tying up and then shooting to death the two adults and the three children in the home. The home was rural, and nobody heard anything, the killers got away clean. It was only later, when one of the men told another con in prison what they’d done, that the killers were both made to pay for their crime.
So to all those folks out there that want ‘compassion’ for the dead and wounded criminals in these stories — GFYS. Preferably with a rusty farm implement.