Moore said police had told him not to discuss his feelings about the Iraq war....

[bopst]

NEW YORK: It was bound to happen sooner or later, and in what newspapers in Kentucky are calling a first, one American has killed another in a dispute over the Iraq war.

It happened at Floyd County flea market on Thursday, when two friends, who were firearms vendors there, drew guns after quarreling about the war. Douglas Moore, 65, of Martin, who supports the war, shot and killed Harold Wayne Smith, 56, of Manchester, who opposed it, according to investigators.

Moore was released without being charged after he convinced police he had acted in self-defense.

Commonwealth's Attorney Brent Turner said the episode might mark the first death in the U.S. due to a dispute over the war.

One witness, Sam Hamman of Prestonsburg, told a newspaper, "Harold was talking about the 14 people that were killed in Iraq the other day and Doug said that just as many people were killed on the highways here.”

This quickly escalated into an argument, then to a scuffle, and finally both men drew pistols outside a snack shed. The dead man was just a little slower. Witnesses said he stood for about five seconds before falling on the paved walkway.

In a telephone interview yesterday, Moore said police had told him not to discuss his feelings about the Iraq war.

The daughter of the dead man said the two men were friends and had discussed Iraq before. She said her father "had different opinions than everybody. He felt it was wrong that all of these young people were losing their lives over what was going on. It was just a political disagreement, like a whole lot of people have."

[franscar]

It was just a political disagreement, like a whole lot of people have."

:eek: I don't remember the last time I shot someone over politics.

[zorra_chiflada]

Moore was released without being charged after he convinced police he had acted in self-defense.



haha! that'd be right!
if it was the anti-war guy that shot the pro-war guy he would have gotten the fucking death penalty.

[infidel]

haha! that'd be right!
if it was the anti-war guy that shot the pro-war guy he would have gotten the fucking death penalty.
or they would pass a law that "liberals" can't own guns

[QueenAdrock]

I, too, saw "Moore said..." and thought it was about Michael Moore. But then I also saw it wasn't started by valvano with a :D next to it, so I figured it must not have been.

That's really horrible. They should send that guy to the chair, because nothing's more un-American than killing someone who doesn't agree with you. Oh, wait... I meant to say that guy should get a metal, for showing people who's boss. That's how we REALLY do it in America. :rolleyes:

[D_Raay]

It's nice to see gun vendors who are mentally stable
(y) (y) :D

[zorra_chiflada]

Oh, wait... I meant to say that guy should get a metal, for showing people who's boss. That's how we REALLY do it in America. :rolleyes:

yeah! by killing an anti-war person, he was doing america a great service!
anyone who is anti war is obviously a terrorist and deserves to die!

[QueenAdrock]

Metal? You get a sheet of tin for your actions!

Pardonnez-moi. I meant medal.

And a sheet of tin.

And a commemorative Dukes of Hazzard cookie tin. (y)

[QueenAdrock]

yeah! by killing an anti-war person, he was doing america a great service!
anyone who is anti war is obviously a terrorist and deserves to die!

Duh, that's what I've been saying. Anyone who disagrees with our shady government's secret illegal doings should be shot on sight.

[zorra_chiflada]

Duh, that's what I've been saying. Anyone who disagrees with our shady government's secret illegal doings should be shot on sight.

i remember this episode of dr. phil once, and the whole episode was him and the audience and his stupid trophy whore of a wife completely trashing these two women who were protesting against the war. i almost put a brick through the television.
the fucking nerve of them to film an episode like that, let alone screen it here.

[QueenAdrock]

I could have sworn Dr. Phil was gay. I mean, a mustached and balding man wearing a suit talkng about FEELINGS?

Total chocolate-factory at his house. His wife is just for show.

[QueenAdrock]

Holy crap, speaking of which, did you know that freakin' Laurence Fishburne was the cowboy in Peewee? I didn't know until was catching up on my old episodes on the season DVDs last week.

Okay, you can go back to your political discussion now. I think I'm done being ADD.

[Documad]

The story has nothing to do with the war--they could have been fighting over football. They were both idiots and they both had guns and they both were drawing their guns outside the "snack shed", and the one guy shot first. That's why it's self defense.

Anyhow, I target shoot at a gun range and the guys who work there all walk around wearing holsters with handguns (one seriously has a handle-bar mustache and you don't see that outside of a cartoon these days--at least in Minnesota). Well, those guys will debate all kinds of stuff and I just agree with them. So handle-bar mustache guy told me a story about how he shot a buck when hunting and another guy tried to claim he shot it and they drew guns on each other in the woods. And I was all "damn straight, he can't take your buck" when I was really thinking "jesus christ, you men are all insane." It's not as funny after this last year when that horrid guy killed a bunch of people in Wisconsin over a hunting dispute.

[valvano]

i dont hold the copyright to the smirk smilie
its free for anybody to use

[Ali]

i dont hold the copyright to the smirk smilieNo, but you sure know the most inappropriate (http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=913842) time to use it. :mad:

[bopst]

I love how this all went down at the snack bar....