K, I felt the following needed to be pointed out:

The two injured individuals were a 15 year old female and a 20 year old male. Unless I miss my guess, they're both too young to drink at any establishment, including a nightclub. Yes, it's possible they were drunk, though I'd wager one of you news jockeys would've found that out by now and posted it .

Anyway, that's my two cents. No need to gather the pitchforks and torches on my behalf.

Right, because everyone knows a 12-gauge is the appropriate response to assualt with a juice bottle.

Oh boy...
My apartment is right in the middle of the town center. There is a pub I can walk to in about fifteen seconds from my front door. There are another four or five in a two minute radius, one night club and about four fried chicken/curry shops in a five minute radius. Bearing all that in mind, things are for the most part pretty quiet, but on the odd occasion it's got noisy, my fiance found that pretty scary. If some drunken piece of shit threw something through one of my windows I'd probably do something about it too. (I don't have a shotgun, but I do have a katana) I think everything should be taken into account when viewing the case, and I hope the guy gets the psychiatric counselling he needs for his PTSD. I can undestand why he reacted the way he did, but it was still an unnecessarily extreme reaction (probably due to the PTSD) I definitely think the charges should be reduced from attempted murder to assualt with a deadly weapon.
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i think its a good thing that this man brought freedom to iraq.

with freedom givers like him over there, no wonder they love us and our freedom.

I was just coming to post this. I hope more people pay attention to this fact if they're gonna argue about hostile drunk people and whether they deserve to be shot. Does anyone know if it was an all-ages club? Maybe they were all on E (considering the juice), instead, and he was trying to defend his home and family from the evil, disheveled youngsters who would drink juice and PET him.

But petting leads to heavy petting. And heavy petting leads to sex. And we all know that everyone who ever had sex immediately got AIDS and became pregnant with a crack baby - at least, that's what I learned in sex ed.

DON'T YOU HIPPIES KNOW THAT AIDS KILLS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE A YEAR? MIILLLIIIOOOONSSS!

I've never been shot, and I've never gotten AIDS, but one time I got the flu and man did it suck.

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Punch yourself in your mouth.

"They" threw "a" bottle? Could you please either explain the mechanics involved in multiple people throwing the same bottle through a window or just admit that the straws you're grasping at are crumbling at your touch?

From the starting post:

I think you rather missed the point, that point being that someone in a large crowd allegedly threw a juice bottle through his window. Not the entire crowd, as that is physically impossible. Nimrod the Mighty, however, fired a scattergun into the entire crowd. One person out of 30 or 40 threw something, so he shot randomly at 30 or 40 people ~29 - 39 of whom had done absolutely nothing.

I haven't missed the point, I was directly responding to the comment about the thrown bottle, and I actually wrote this previously...

Yes, you missed the point of the comment about the thrown bottle: "Could you please either explain the mechanics involved in multiple people throwing the same bottle through a window"

That point being that multiple people cannot throw a single bottle. Like I said.

You're looking for an argument in the wrong place, my friend. I read the comment:

and accept it. I posted it for the person that made that comment so they would realize that it was a single person that threw the bottle, not a group of people. There's no way multiple people can throw a single bottle (nor was that what happened) so it's not worth discussing further

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A single bottle was thrown from a crowd. One of the people in the crowd or near it had to throw the bottle. He wanted to shoot the person who threw the bottle. So he used logic and said it must be someone in the crowd. He fired into the crowd and hoped the person that threw the bottle would lose an eye or die or something. He then went to bed and dreamed and had some more nightmares.

I love America

i feel sorry for these guys coming home. i feel really bad for this guy. the required seperation packages for discharge from the Marine Corps is hardly anything to prepare a Marine for the civilian world. i had problems adjusting back to normal life, and i was never even in a combat enviroment. the required Tamp and Tap courses are mostly designed with how to deal with applying for a job or using your GI Bill.

a warning shot, as defined by most ROE's (Rules of Engagement) is a shot fired to WOUND.
while this may or may not have been his intentions, i think that attempted murder charges are way excessive. its obviously he needs help instead of prison.