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Florida man kills door-to-door salesman: I’ll kill anybody that steps on my property man in Cape Coral, Florida on Wednesday was arrested for shooting and killing an unarmed door-to-door salesman on his property.
Kenneth Bailey Roop, 52, has been charged with second-degree murder for killing 30-year-old Nicholas Rainey.
A co-worker who witnessed the shooting said Rainey had knocked on Roop’s door, but received no answer. While Rainey was walking down the drive-way, Roop pulled up in his pickup truck and asked why Rainey was at his house. Rainey explained that he was selling steak and seafood. The witness said Roop then pulled out a black handgun and shot Rainey. As Rainey lay on the ground, Roop fired another bullet into the back of his head.
Roop later told police that he shot Rainey in the head “for effect” and that he had three no trespassing signs on his property. Roop said he feared for his life.
“I’m not going to give him the chance to do something to me,” he told police. “I was in fear.”
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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Thank you, NRA!!!  Stand Your Ground for a Safer America!
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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Trying to convince myself this is a movie trailer cuz I just don't want to believe it is real. I'm loosing the battle.
"The white men were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to." Dee Brown
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I know this doesn't look good but, believe me, not everyone in Florida is like this. It appears perhaps that the percentage might be higher here than some other places though.
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Roop’s neighbors described him as “the neighborhood crazy.” Roop has a concealed weapons permit and approximately 14 firearms. Think the neighbors were on to something there. Maybe we need an official channel where neighbors can register their impressions about the mental state of the armed.
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It sounds like people had already talked to the police about this guy.
But nothing can be done until they kill someone.
It could have been a Mormon kid or a Jehovah's Witness.
The neighbors knew better but nobody told the poor salesman.
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The insensitive bastard had already lived 22 years longer than the poor innocent he killed. Execution is too good for him.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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And, he was already leaving.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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This is neither self defense nor stand your ground.
This idiot didn't HAVE to kill this man ... he GOT to kill this man ... because he stepped over the line ... like in tetherball or hopscotch.
Sick sick sick.
Just a Missouri school teacher ... stubborn as a mule and addicted to logic.
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I remember meeting people like that when I lived in the States.
Haven't met, or even heard of, such people in Canada.
I think my description "The United States of Hysteria" has some truth to it.
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