Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters So...how bout Charles Askins, Jr.?

Let me make this REAL clear so some of you silly sailors can understand.

Let's look at a few situations here, and see if you can accuratley identify what is a justifiable killing ,and what's not.

1) You're sitting with your family at the dinner table, when an armed burglar breaks into your home. As he comes at your family, you grab a gun and kill him.

2) You're at the grocery store when a man pulls a gun and starts randomly shooting innocent men , women and children. You draw your own gun and kill him.

3) Someone kills your entire family. You find out who it is, you track them down and kill them.

4) You're driving down the street, and see someone walking on the sidewalk that doesn't quite suit your fancy. You roll down the window, shoot them in the head and drive off.

Now, if you can't see the fundamental differences in those situations, I can't really help you. One is an act of self defense, one is an act of protecting innocent lives, one is an act of vengence and another is plain old murder.

Now, Charlie Askins certainly killed people in his line of work who he legally and morally was well within his rights to kill. Anyone who draws a gun and/or fires on a peace officer is essentially signing their own death warrant. And they know that. But there were other situations where he had zero right to kill people. While in Viet Nam on a hunting trip, he killed people who were a nuisance to him. Just folks wandering by. There are several stories of him firing on fellow peace officers and completely innocent civilians. Skeeter Skelton told the story of Askins nearly blowing the head off a sleeping American who just happened to be lost in the desert. He shot and missed the guy.......and was embarrassed he missed.

If you can't tell the difference between a righteous killing and a flat out murder, you probably have a real hard time telling the difference between right and wrong.

Brian.