You dirty rat you

[Bob Orts]

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Originally posted by JWFITZ

To report a single report of a firearm wholly without context is irresponsible. And it is this kind of knee-jerk reaction that is insensible and dangerous.

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So, if a person hears a single gunshot but has no other basis to suspect a crime, reporting it is a knee-jerk reaction that is insensible and dangerious?
O.k., I'll play. You go away for a week and when you arrive home the police are at your house. You immediately asked what happened and they say your (spouse, lover, mother, father, sister or brother, you pick) was visiting and was shot in the face at your front door. They say the person lay bleeding in pain for 36 hours before finally bleeding out and died. The next day you read in the newspaper how 10 people heard a gunshot but did nothing because they didn't want to be insensible and dangerous by reporting it. Some said they acted 100% correctly by not reporting the gunshot they heard because it would have been a knee jerk reaction to a single gunshot. One person even said that it was the stiff's responsibility to get shot more than once so people know it was associated with a crime. After all, how were we as neighbors to know someone was dying when it wasn’t multiple shots, which might have indicated a criminal act?

The press ask you how you feel about the comments of the neighbors who went merrily about their day to day lives while your (fill in the blank) was dying on your doorstep.

How would you truthfully feel and answer?