Don’t these kids have anything better to do? Pretty sad and dangerous:
NBC News correspondent Emilie Ikeda says a viral social media stunt known as the “door kick challenge” is now leading to arrests in Florida and renewed warnings from law enforcement that these pranks can easily end in gunfire.
Ikeda’s report centers on St. Johns County, where deputies say three teenagers went to multiple homes and forcefully kicked at doors in the middle of the night, creating a scenario that homeowners could reasonably mistake for a real home invasion.
Gun rights commentator Colion Noir, reacting to the same Florida case, says the trend is not harmless mischief and shouldn’t be treated like a joke.
Noir argues that what teens are doing is effectively simulating a violent felony in a country where many homeowners keep firearms for protection, and he points to the Florida case as a near-miss where a homeowner almost answered the door with a gun.
Someone will get shot or get their hair parted with a tire iron…either way, stupid should and will hurt.
…then we’ll have to deal with the grieving parents crying over the fact that their wonderful child is now either dead or consigned to a life of drooling and eating through a tube…just for “play’en”.
It will be hard for a homeowner who opens his door and confronted by a child or teenager who subsequently takes a tire iron to their head to claim fear for their life.
Then again any home owner who shoots through their front door blindly would have a hard time proving their life was in imminent danger.
By that logic i should be able to shoot anyone who approaches my front door.
But apart from those with mental health issues does anyone in the real world live in such abject fear that any stranger in their orbit is going to hurt or kill them?
You think that will prevent little Joey from getting his noodle stoved in?
Ok, homeowner gets years of an affectionate relationship with his cellmate…little Joey gets a lifetime of round the clock medical care. Happy endings for all.
Ah yes, the world is made up soley of rational, fun loving people who look forward to sharing a laugh at being woken up at night to someone kicking at the door. The society these good humored soles exist in is completely void of irrational violent individuals.
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