Why did they arrrest General Bache?
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garyw0001 — 15 years ago(May 28, 2010 12:08 AM)
All the Sheriff would need to do is perform a gunshot residue test on the General's hands to see if he had, indeed, fired the pistol.
Not being an instructor, he doesn't take an active part in the field training of the cadets, so it would be unlikely that he would have reason to fire a weapon, unless, of course, he recently took some target practice on the cardboard cut-outs they have of the townie kids in the school's firing range. -
ArizonaKnightWolf — 15 years ago(January 16, 2011 07:32 PM)
The Generals hand was near enough to the weapon that he would have gotten the residue on him as well. It just does not stick to the shooter magically. It does get tossed around a bit by the surround air.
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gabby_bm — 15 years ago(January 18, 2011 07:39 AM)
Truly sad is that if he were to go to a prison for manslaughter, it would have been one of those country club prisons where he would end up wearing a
"..little white shirt with cut-off sleeves, alligator on the tit, and spend the rest of his days beating the hell out of a little white ball with an iron club.."
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red_skin123 — 11 years ago(October 15, 2014 08:11 AM)
I feel like the scene was WRITTEN with the redneck wrestling with him and going for his weapon and then the General trying to protect, maybe even upholstering it, and he's the one holding it and the redneck is going after it, and then the General accidentally fires the weapon.
But how it was DIRECTED, in order to have the audience be more sympathetic is to have the Redneck get a hold of it, and even fire it. But I felt this was tedious in that logically all of the General's boys would backup (I'm sure a few of them would lay witness to that struggle) the fact it was the redneck at fault.
I do agree the General would have gotten arrested, but as another poster said, DA and cops would figure out what actually happened after interviews and an investigation.
But yeah, The General shouldn't have had his gun safety off, round in the chamber, maybe that's why he took responability, because he let his sidearm be taken from him by a drunken civi, and he improper condition of the weapon. -
stell1837 — 11 years ago(January 25, 2015 09:42 AM)
I'm surprised as to how much guilt, weak, and remorse General Bache felt afterwards. He's a military man who has probably killed others in all his battles. Bache should have defended himself and implicated the townie and declare that he was totally at fault - not himself. And it's too bad that the other townie got killed.but tough. He brought it up himself.
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WigglySniff — 10 years ago(August 18, 2015 10:12 PM)
Watch the scene again. The shot that kills the kid doesn't come from Bache's gun, but from far away.
The "redneck" (who's actually highly educated, probably French) and Dwyer are staging the entire thing. Moreland knows this from the get-go, but doesn't figure out why until his conversation with his "father" (who, of course, is not his father, but a fellow Mossad operative). -