There's no way Spooner was in danger of his life. He may have been angry, but if we had the right to kill anyone we were angry with, the population of the U.S. would be about 1/10 of what it is now.

In Texas if the kid had his property and was running away, he could have shot him.

So we'll see how it goes.

Bryant

Hope that crazy old bastard get thrown in jail for the short time he has remaining.

With an insanity defense.

Where did Spooner get the idea he was judge, jury and prosecutor?

Pulled it out of his butt.

"The Sun is a mass of plasma and with a mass vastly more than the Earth. It's a slightly smaller than average star about 4.8 billion years old.

"My PhD advisor and his sorry ass are retired now, but his ass is nowhere near 4.8 billion years old. Unlike the Sun, his arse is not composed of plasma, although it is smaller than the average ass and and insane number of times smaller than the Earth's mass."


Now: "The Sun, which has been compared to a professor's ass, is responsible for the vast majority of energy that radiates as infrared from the Earth."


Yes, the two cases have been compared. No, there is no comparison except in pointless superficialities.

Yes, the two cases have been compared. Yes, there are meaningful comparisons in that a white guy killed a black kid whom he suspected of doing something wrong.

It remains to be shown that this is a pointless superficiality, but it's not something that's going to mean that the trials or outcomes are going to be in any way similar, nor would be even if both were in Florida in 2013. (Perhaps Mississippi, 1940. No opinion there.)