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Related: About this forumBible dispute leads to shots fired.
Yeah this was in that state.
The Leon County Sheriff's Office says it arrested a 31-year-old man after a debate about the Bible with his brother escalated into a fight where gunshots were fired into the ground.
The incident on Wax Myrtle Drive happened on Sunday around 11:18 p.m., according to the arrest affidavit.
Michael Dean was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without the intent to kill, use of a firearm during a felony, criminal mischief property damage and harming a public servant or family member.
When deputies first arrived on scene, Dean's brother told them they drank several alcoholic beverages on the front porch and were in a heated debate about the Bible, the affidavit said. The brother then told deputies Dean choked him, but he broke out of it and a fight started.
The incident on Wax Myrtle Drive happened on Sunday around 11:18 p.m., according to the arrest affidavit.
Michael Dean was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without the intent to kill, use of a firearm during a felony, criminal mischief property damage and harming a public servant or family member.
When deputies first arrived on scene, Dean's brother told them they drank several alcoholic beverages on the front porch and were in a heated debate about the Bible, the affidavit said. The brother then told deputies Dean choked him, but he broke out of it and a fight started.
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Bible dispute leads to shots fired. (Original Post)
47of74
Oct 2019
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)1. Guns and Religion.
Can't have one without the other.
PJMcK
(23,487 posts)3. Add liquor and you have a trifecta!
As I wrote in another post about this story, Cain and Abel.
47of74
(18,470 posts)4. Indeed. And yeah alcohol was involved here.
So yes, a Florida Trifecta.
UrbScotty
(23,992 posts)5. I'm pretty religious and I've never touched a gun in my life.
Unless you count my biceps as guns
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)6. If you registered your biceps as long-arms of the law, then yes.
eppur_se_muova
(38,947 posts)2. Not for the first time.
Try reading about the iconoclasts vs the iconodules ...