Seattlest: Trial of Seattle Actress's Murderer Confims That Challenging Gunmen To Shoot You Is A Bad Idea

Gem

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:31:36 -0800

they are making it sound like there was a reason someone was murdered, because she challeneged him...uuuum, pretty sure that is no justification to kill someone. Nikki challenging him is irrelevant to his decision to shoot her.

Jason Reilly

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:14 -0800

I think the obvious lesson here is to challenge muggers to shoot themselves.

Ryan

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:46:20 -0800

You know what's worse than challenging someone to shoot you? Shooting someone.

LB

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:44:48 -0800

Nicole wasn't trying to get Fleming to shoot her; that would be suicidal. She was trying to stand up for herself, and for her fiance, who had just been hit so hard by his eye that he couldn't see straight. She was angry and probably terrified, although we'll never know for sure; that knowledge has been taken away from us. What a sad state of affairs that we blame the victim of a crime for the crime itself. Fleming had a gun, and I find it hard to believe that anyone who hits the streets of New York at 3 am with a gun, and the intention to "bang on" passers-by, isn't looking for an excuse to use it. For all we know, Nicole could have stayed silent and compliant, and he would have shot her anyway. And how, exactly, did a teenager with a criminal record obtain a gun in the first place? A better and fairer title for this article might be, "Trial of Seattle Actress's Murderer Confirms That Loose Gun Control Laws Kill Innocent People". And for the record, they were on the Lower East Side, on Clinton Street, not on Avenue C.

K

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:57:13 -0800

What were they doing in that part of town? Hadn't they seen Rent? Or maybe they did and they got the wrong idea. Avenue B is for the Brave, Avenue C is for the Crazy!