Posted July 22, 2019 4:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

“Oh, he’s harmless. After all, he’s too old to hurt anyone.”

Have you ever heard that line of reasoning? I sure have. Truth be told, I’ve actually thought that way. The feeble old man walking is usually not someone you have to worry about day-to-day. The young guy who is clearly looking for trouble might be another matter, but not the old man.

That line of thinking impacted a judge’s decision to parole a convicted murderer. He was old and, therefore, harmless.

Unfortunately, he wasn’t.

A man who served decades in prison for stabbing his wife 14 times in front of her daughter was convicted Wednesday in a nearly identical crime — stabbing a woman at least 11 times while her twin children watched.

Albert Flick, 77, who was previously deemed too old to be a threat by a judge, was convicted in the 2018 death of Kimberly Dobbie. Jurors deliberated less than an hour before reaching its guilty verdict.

Both the attack, which was in front of a laundromat in broad daylight, and Flick’s purchase two days earlier of two knives, were caught on surveillance video.

Now, let’s be clear here. Flick is not your typical old man. He’s clearly someone with a …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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