I couldn't agree with you more. I think so many people in this country are so sick and pathetic when it comes to when it's reasonable to shot someone.

I do think that calling 911 was the good thing to do.

Also, I think you are misunderstanding my original argument. Just because someone makes a mistake doesn't make them a criminal. Shooting an unarmed person makes you a murderer and quite possibly a criminal. Lying to your parents makes you stupid and an asshole teen, it doesn't make you a criminal.

I think that using the excuse that someone put their arms down when you are arguing with them gives you the right to shoot them makes you trigger happy.

Agreed. It's pretty fucked up and heartbreaking.

I have a lot of respect for this man. While I don't agree with his pro-life stance, at least he really believes in the republican sentiment that the government should stay out of people's lives and not hinder their personal choices. Most republicans are the fucking cowards those who go to him and say "I agree with you…

I'm reading though a lot of these comments, and I just feel like all the concentration on the daughter and how she should have know what her father was going to do just illuminates what is wrong with this country and gun culture.

How does putting your arms down mean you have a right to shoot someone?

Yeah, people lie all the time and it doesn't fucking mean you get to kill someone.

Well, I guess we can climb down this made up rabbit hole if you would like. If the boy is saying "I know her" or "why are you saying this" wouldn't that also tell the father that maybe something else is going on here? Isn't it much more likely that his daughter knows the boy than not?

An innocent boy is dead because her father shot her. If he wanted to sue later after he was arrested (alternate scenario) then that might make sense.

This. I think she was an asshole for throwing him under the bus, but calling her a criminal seems like a really extreme and irrational response.

Saying that she decided her "ass" over her boyfriends "life" doesn't make sense unless she knew that her boyfriend was going to die and she wasn't. I think it's quite much to assume that she knew exactly what her father would do.

I agree with you, but carelessness and making her a criminal is a big leap here.

Well we don't know that. But he was holding a loaded gun and shot someone in the head for dropping his hands, so I'm going to say that makes him a tripper happy murderer.

I don't see how making assumptions is helpful. Are you a psychic? How do you know that? It doesn't stand legally.

That's an assumption we don't know. Also, he wasn't held on charges, he was killed, that seems irrelevant for the case. Does that make her an asshole? Yes. Accomplice to murder? No. All I'm saying is that just like how he doesn't deserve to die for a stupid mistake, her being charged with accessory to murder is…

This situation is disgusting, and I think that trigger happy father should go to jail for a very long time. However, I think his family is grieving and isn't really thinking straight about charging her.

Well, you could argue that his actions led to his death as well, but I would never say that starting a fight with someone with a gun should allow them to shoot you.

I totally agree, we don't know whether she was terrified the father would use it on her.