Yup, "Jumpy" is a word the Atlanta Journal Constitution uses to justify the behaviour of two teenagers who had their heads blown off in a poe-dunk redneck town outside of Athens.
According to the AJC and other local news, two teenagers walked into a store in Ogelthorpe County and demanded money. The news said the owners of the store were "going to give them the money", but the kids got "jumpy" and pulled out a gun.
The owners shot both kids dead.
Neither of the owners was hurt and neither of the owners will face any charges because "it was their right to protect their property."
I've always been told that in Georgia there are specific laws governing how and when you are allowed to blow off someone's fucking head. If someone breaks into my house to steal something and I happen to catch them and want to kill them, it is absolutely my right to do so. The only minor hang-up - and it really is minor - is if they happen to be running away from my 12-gauge when I shoot them. If that's the case, I need to make sure I put at least one bullet in their face and be sure to drag them back into my house (wiping away any trace of blood in the process.) See, if I kill them on my front porch, I go to jail. I kill 'em in my house - free as a bird.
How many other folks out their have Jethro-laws like this one? I mean, I guess it makes sense on some primal, special-ed level, but really...
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