This is a brutal one, but it also carries a lesson:
A 21-year-old Prior Lake man was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly 30 years in prison for joining another assailant to stab and burn a Burnsville man nearly to death during a home invasion three years ago…Victim Paul Traub was stabbed 20 times, doused with a flammable liquid and left to burn to death. The assailants also set eight fires in his home….The intruders broke two phones, flipped off a circuit breaker and removed a battery from a smoke detector minutes before Traub awakened about 4 a.m. As he tried to escort Whitfield outside, Traub said Tuesday, Cook jumped out and stabbed him three times in the head — including once in the face — with a paring knife from a kitchen drawer.
Thankfully the victim is still alive. Still here’s another lesson of the “Gun Death?” files, the first is that the metric “Gun Death” is 100% bullshit, as violence is a human condition and in the absence of guns humans will still cause harm to each other.
Anther is awareness of the horrors of a world without guns. This man had his home broken into early in the morning by multiple men with full intention to kill him. Don’t you think he would have been better off if he had had a gun himself?
Be careful, carry your gun, and don’t allow the metric “Gun Death” to be used!
h/t Madmeddic
The real crime is that they attempted to stab and burn a man to death… and received 30 years.
They’ll be out in twelve with good behavior and time served.
“Let that be a lesson to the rest of you scoundrels!”
Oh, but tell Josh Sugarman that fortunatly no one was shot!
The anti self-defense people are morally bankrupt and have shown themselves to willingly hold the coats of muggers, rapists and murderers while they do their evil.