Taze him!!!
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Taze him!!!
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Scenario 1: is the window broken or not
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yes, window is broken. The window is fully open, and is a low bay window that the man can simply step into the room, if he chooses.
Now both cases have become in instance where there is danger to life. I am prepared to pull the trigger in each case.
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prepared, does not equal a resolution.
do you run inside and get the phone?
do you wait for someone else to get involved?
You know the castle laws, they are in your yard, not in your house.
you can feel like your child is in danger, but is it immediate danger, is it danger of grave bodily harm?
the guy in the car is screaming don't shoot, while he moves around behind the door, where you can't see what he's doing. Then he pops up and prepares to either lunge at you or jump away, something is in his hand, it's black and you don't really know what it is, it's dark.
blam, you fire your weapon, you have three things on your side.
first, he didn't freeze when told.
second, he made a sudden move.
in his hand is a small cordless drill.
he's shot through the neck, breathing heavily through blood, dying in your driveway.
do you:
shoot him again
help him from bleeding out, and call paramedics/911
watch him wriggle on the ground thinking, "uh huh, that's what you get for stealing from me" then go to your garage fridge for a beer.
I never did like those choose your own adventure books.
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The case with the guy at my daughters bedroom window is pretty cut and dry. The intent to me is clear enough.
The one with the guy in the car is harder. For two reasons: the law won't always be on your side and you concocted a case with a lot of gray areas and I value life the willingness to take someone's life should always be a last resort, but not at the risk of losing your own.
But in either case a tazer would be a sufficient tool to properly diffuse the situation and detain the intruder until the authorities arrive. Now I'm sure you can add some variable that would render the tazer useless as well. So tell me, what would you do? And how do these scenarios compare with some punk that simply jumped your fence?
When I was a kid we played neighborhood wide hide seek games and jumping fences, running through yards was part of the fun. Kids do dumb shit.
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Scenario, Chicago is closing down the projects, the hoodrats are moving downstate to gain cheap housing and a new place. So Danville, IL, Blue collar total white trash town AND... now... hoodrats.
2 hoodrats shooting at each other in some dude's back yard... 2 dead hoodrats. We got hoodrats breaking into houses and dying on a regular basis. Death warrant here is breaking into some dude's house armed, it's bad, in Chicago you may get by with that having a scared dem cowering. but not here.... what we feel after shooting an intruder in the head is... our ears ringing.
Someone breaks into my house? The last thing they hear will be ye ol scatter blaster!
But standing in the driveway?!
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I try to Shoo them to the driveway in hopes they leave D: