Too many nutjob AmeriKans with guns. If US authorities used the same firearm laws in Europe, over half of the potential gun owners would fail.
I can’t imagine living my life so on edge or angry that the door bell ringing would make me shoot someone.
Seriously. I’ll go to bed and leave the door unlocked, go for a run and leave it open so I don’t have to take keys.
Walk home through sketchy areas in the early hours of the morning and live in Manchester a pretty large city.
Twice in 42 years have I had someone try and attack me for no reason. Never had someone break into my house. Heck I went to work one day and left the keys on the lock outside and still nothing.
I’m very very glad I grew up in basically a 90’s teen drama town, where most people probably didn’t even own hunting rifles, or one newer than 100 years old.
Cop speak is always so frustratingly literal. They refer to the victim as “the male”. He’s 11. call him a kid and have some empathy
Even in the 2000s people would call the cops saying there was a robbery when they got dinged. We were like fucken 11 and a police helicopter came overhead it was fucken insane.
When little kids can’t even play simple pranks in your country without being shot, your country has serious issues that desperately need addressing (but won’t because the administration is so corrupt)
They have guns and the death penalty but somehow, they can’t put together that one leads to the other. It’s like the only thing that matters there is the profit from selling the equipment.
Had someone fire a gun at myself and 2 friends for doing this when we were teenagers. No vandalism, no destruction, just knocking on the door (friend happened to bang particularly fast and hard while screaming “Satan Loves You”) and hightailing it. I also live in the south, so guns a-blazin’, I guess.
I’ve also been threatened with a gun and other acts of violence for dressing in all black and not believing in some bullshit god. Police have also been called on me for sitting in front of the mall in my trenchcoat while waiting on my ride as a teen. And I’ve had a cop train a gun on me while my friends and I were goofin’ around in their backyard.
Black?
Hispanic judging from the name.
What a shithole country. Total no-go zone.
Are you trying to be ignorant?
Trump famously referred to other countries as shithole countries. People often darkly mock him and the us by referring to the us as a shithole country. Not really sure how ignorance plays a role in their comment, but it’s possible you’re ignorant to that context so just adding that here.
Any country that goes through a Sandy-Hook style shooting and doesn’t amend their gun control regulations, is a shithole country.
QED.
Are you trying to defend a shithole country where kids get shot for ringing doorbells or going to school?
You could’ve just said “yes.”
How is what they said ignorant? I’m asking as an American.
Why is this article not framed as if this was a crime? They never mentioned the shooter or his consequences. It’s not illegal to ring a door bell.
The Houston police department have not released the identity of the boy or the occupant of the home, but said a middle-aged man has been arrested and several weapons were later recovered from the home.
It happened on Sunday; that’s all the consequences that have happened thusfar. There will likely be a trial, but the justice system moves a lot more slowly than it would have to for there to be anything more than that yet.
Fair enough.
This just in: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/us/houston-ding-dong-ditch-shooting-arrest
He’s been charged with murder
You sure showed that 11 year old boy! What a real man’s man. Super tough guy. No one is going to knock on his door now!
No one is going to knock on his door now!
Because his new door has bars and is locked from the outside.
I used to knock doors back in the 1990s raising money for Jump Rope for Heart. Not once did I have to worry about being shot. And that was in Texas! Also in 1999 I was a door to door sales man for Orange Solve. Again never had an issue For fuck sakes my grandfather sold life insurance door to door. We used to have door sales man and not mention religious people who would go door to door. Not once did you hear stories like this.
I blame fox news. They have made these people so fucking scared. Life was more dangerous back in the 70’s-80’s for a kid.
Guess that’s what they want to go back to. I hope this man gets life in prison. Goddammit I am sick tired of these fucks ruining and destroying our world. Fucking piss baby.
This is different from just ringing doorbells. The article doesn’t say it and glosses over the fact that this kid was doing it for TikTok. The fuckin stupid ass TiKtOk ChaLLeNgE is to go up and kick the shit out the door as loud as you can, then run away after terrifying whoever is inside.
It’s no excuse to shoot, but it’s not a simple “kid rang the doorbell”
I canvassed door-to-door in Ohio in the mid-80s for a public interest org and I also never feared for my life. Although one time I had knocked on one door and was actually leaving the property when the homeowner opened his door and let his doberman out. This thing barked at me and seemed to be trying to bite me but I was able to keep my clipboard in front of his head. Anybody trying to defend themselves from a dog should try using a clipboard.
However, I’m white. I had a friend from Sri Lanka who was working the same job and his experience was a bit different. One time he was walking down a road and heard a noise behind him, turned around and saw a car approaching him with a guy sticking out of the passenger window holding a baseball bat.
Holy shit that crazy. When I did door to door always had an uneventful experience. Even when I canvas here in Oklahoma it was meh. Guess other benefit ot being white.
I hope they’ll lock up all of fox news, oann, etc as well as these lying fucks are the reason for people’s minds being so fucked up
What color is your skin, though?
I’m white but I worked with people of color knocking doors we never ran into these issues in the 1990’s.
i dunno. I have a friend who’s asian, sold door to door in DFW in the 90s and regularly had guns pulled on him.
Really? What was he selling?
i legitimately don’t remember. it was 30 years ago.
Protection.
My ex-wife once took a part-time job helping to register voters during the run-up to the 2020 election. I decided to drive her around for these visits to make sure she was OK. The amount of people opening the doors brandishing firearms was insane. Around 15-20% of the doors she knocked on. One time she walked up to a nice looking house, but came back really quick, turns out there were a couple of children (8-10 years old) in the garage that were holding rifles as she came up, and as she did, the leveled them in her direction.
That was the last house. Never again. Conservative americans are (and I say this with only love in my heart for people born with an extra chromosome) fucking retarded. I hope for them nothing but the worst.
Should have called the cops and said they were brandishing.
That’s scary and so fucking crazy. We can’t fix these people. We need to one cut off Fox News and any right wing media, then we need to pump billions into education.
We also need to lock all these people up in institutions until we can deprogram them.
What state was this?
In Louisiana in the early 90s a Japanese foreign exchange student was shot during a Halloween party when he accidentally knocked on the wrong house in costume. When he walked away, the home owner came out with a revolver and yelled ‘freeze’. He didn’t understand what that meant since his English was poor and he walked towards them and was then shot. He probably also thought that he DID go to the right house and as it was Halloween it was probably a gag.
The home owner was acquitted, but it caused an international incident.
My mother told me about an incident where a ethnic Chinese man (or woman? can’t remember what I heard) in the US was going through the trash looking for those bottles/cans that you can sell for money (you know those that says 5 cent / 10 cent if recycled?), so there was a kid in the house who their parents left alone at home armed with a fucking gun and he started shouting at the man to leave, but he didn’t understand English, so the kid shot and killed the man, claiming to “feel threatened”. The shooter being a kid means there were no charges.
That conversation basically set the atmosphere (as in, the mental picture that I have) of what America was like. Its probably one of the reasons why I (as someone who is also ethnically Chinese) have this self-imposed restriction of never going to a republican area or any racially homogenous areas (particularly those all white suburbs / rural places)
I never looked it up, but let me know if you found an article that matchs what I was told.
Never heard of this. Of course I was kin the early 90’s.
Thanks that sucks, fucker got away with it. And his house brother killded himself in 2023. Fucking monsters still have not paid out the judgement they owe. I hope they had a rotten life after that. Living in a trailer park to good for them.
It’s crazy to me they can just not pay a cent of the judgement. As of a 2022 article, the only amount paid out was by insurance
Couldn’t find anything about their lives
Adults: “Kids never go outside and have fun anymore.”
Also Adults: “If you step on my property I’ll kill you.”Those are different adults saying those things. The gun nuts tend to instill irrational fear in their kids that they should never leave the house unless they are prepared for life-and-death warfare. It’s a sad cycle of paranoid abuse :(
Sometimes it’s different adults… It’s all part of the same incoherent ideology.
Stay classy, h-town.
Sounds like texas needs a taste of the national guard.
Three teenagers rang his door as a prank, and his response is to get in his car, follow them, and then now them down? Totally reasonable. He was clearly just defending himself. 🙄
Some teenagers mistakenly banged on the back door of the wrong house near me and the home owner chased them down and fired on their car when they were trying to get away. The kids ran into the woods and the car went missing for a few hours. The home owner was a cop, so anyone paying attention was suspicious where the car went. The whole instinct was sweep under the rug, so I assume that either the chief didn’t let them plant evidence or there was nothing in the evidence locker to plant.
Not that this is an excuse but I’m going to make the assumption that he was addicted to being kept in a perpetual state of fear by fox news etc.
They changed their name to Faux News recently.
There are people that seriously argue that it should be legal to chase down someone who has wronged you in some way and take out any form of revenge you wish against them.
As long as these people are not put in charge of all our institutions, the rule of Law, and police forces…
Can we just make an exception for billionaires? It should be open season on them, at least.
No no, you have to fight the hundred thousandaires and millionaires, while the billionaires laugh with the raucous amusement of dark and hungry gods.
Thats not how corruption works my dude
