Roosevelt Rappley and his dipshit family need a cunting.

Now, I know that none of you will have the first clue who this now deceased member of the shallow end of the gene pool is, so allow me to enlighten you. Rappley was a lowlife who inhabited Montgomery county in Maryland, Philadelphia. Recently, Roosevelt decided to go to his local Dollar Store and rob it. In he went, waving his gun about, threatening staff and customers alike and demanding money from the till. Unfortunately for him, one of the store clerks was carrying a legally held firearm, which he promptly drew and ended Rappley’s crime spree before it had a chance to become more violent. Obviously, Rappley’s association with life also came to an end.

Police were called, decided the store clerk had acted in self defence and that, as far as the law was concerned, was the end of it. For Rappley’s family however, not so much. Two of his TEN siblings went on TV to complain that the clerk’s ending of their brother’s criminal activity was excessive and unjustified. They think the store clerk shouldn’t have been carrying a gun in the first place. I should point out here, that we’re not dealing with a stand up family. Roosevelt is the second sibling in his family to have been shot dead.

They actually had the audacity to claim that although their brother was PARTLY to blame for the incident, he wasn’t ENTIRELY to blame. Really? Well, let’s take a look at it shall we. He woke up that fateful morning and decided that, being short of money, he would go and get some. Unlike normal people however, he didn’t decide to do that by going to an ATM or earning it by working. He decided to get money by threatening staff and customers at a local store and attempting to steal it. That was HIS decision. HE chose the store that he was going to rob. HE decided to carry a gun into that store and threaten innocent people with it. The clerk on the hand DID NOT wake up that morning and think to himself, “I think I’ll shoot someone dead today”. He was FORCED into taking that action, by a moron, who was carrying a loaded firearm, and was presumably willing to use it. So, the blame for Roosevelt’s life coming to an end at the age of 23, rests entirely with Roosevelt Rappley himself. If he hadn’t gone into that store, waving a gun about, he wouldn’t be dead. Thanks to his stupidity and lack of regard for others and lack of work ethic, he is now an ex-person.

To normal people, Roosevelt Rappley is entirely to blame for what happened to him. To his idiot family, the clerk is to blame. Because although their brother tried to rob the place at gunpoint, and gave every impression that he was willing to use his firearm, the clerk was wrong to draw his own piece on him and shoot him, thereby saving the lives of his colleagues and the customers. To Rappley’s family, fuck the store workers, fuck the customers. Their brother is dead, and it’s the clerk’s fault. I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to sue.

This is why I despise criminals and their families so much. They have a chronic, possibly genetic, inability to take responsibility for their actions. Burglar gets caught robbing someone’s house? It’s not his fault he caught, it’s the fault of the police for catching him. Criminal gets killed in the commission of a crime? Not his fault. The family blame everyone but the actual culprit. We are ALL responsible for actions. In Roosevelt Rappley’s case, it’s HIS fault that he chose to try to rob a store that happened to employ a man who was allowed by law to carry a firearm (although, granted, he couldn’t have known that). And it’s Rappley’s fault that he is now pushing up daisies. Had he been an honest, decent, law abiding man, he would still be alive. But he wasn’t. And he isn’t.

So, the Rappley family. What a bunch of cunts.

Nominated by Quick Draw McGraw