Originally Posted by
xtreeme
http:///forum/post/2669627
NO ONE has the right to take someone elses life unless THEIR life is risked. He was playing god deciding who has right to live and die. He was not in danger. No respect for this person he is why gun laws are so debated. Im pro gun but I know the difference between right and wrong. Problem is when people get guns and act like they are the law.
In PA you get shot with a shotgun its loaded with rock salt. No they wont run after- burns too bad. Friend got it corning one halloween and it drops you right then.
If he wants to be a hero he should get rock salt or bean gun. Better get a security camera. He has to live with what he did. I just hope he must face their relatives and see ALL the people effected.
Objectively speaking, I'd like to see what your opinion would be, if it was your house they'd have broken in to. What if your family had been home and been hurt or killed? Would you still be as headstrong as you as, if it would've been your neighbor who would've killed two men breaking into your house?
What about the unmarked officer, that was sitting in the street. Who's to say that if that old man wouldn't have been there, that both of the criminals wouldn't have killed that officer, just to get away, which happens numerous times per day, in this great country of ours.
Maybe that officer wouldn't have been able to stop them and they got away. Who's to say that the next day, the next week, the next month, they wouldn't have broken into someone else house and maybe killed a person? You think just cause an old man with a shotgun would've scared them, that they wouldn't do it again?
Texas and Tennessee have some of the lowest crime rates, in this country, because citizens are allowed to protect themselves. Criminals, in those two states, know home owners don't mess around and they don't take the chance on getting shot, while trying to steal a VCR (causing sometimes thousands of dollars worth of damage, stealing $100 worth of valuables).
There was a story a few years ago, here in IL, when I lived in Chicago. Guy, lives with his family, in a suburb that had passed a law for no firearms. One night, burgler breaks into this dudes house and steals a few sets of keys, along with random other stuff. Next night, the same burgler comes back (armed this time) and attempts to tie up the home owner, his wife and kids and has plans to steal the guys two cars, etc. etc.. Home owner ends up shooting and killing the burgler. Believe it or not, the home owner was prosecuted by the suburb and ended up spending 6 months in prison, for owning a pistol.
As numerous other people have said...I certainly wouldn't mind having this guy as a neighbor. As a law abiding, tax paying citizen of these United States, I'll always own firearms and not think twice to shoot someone that tries to invade my home or my friends/families home.
