And if you believe that what this guy did was not murder under laws dating back hundreds of years, you are not only no friend of mine, but utterly ignorant of the law. This isn’t some new law that just popped up, this has always been the law. This guy committed murder, pure and simple.
Self defense does not mean you can flat out murder someone, as much as movies like Dirty Hairy might give you an erection, that’s not how the law is or ever was. This was a case of murder, pure and simple.
Hypothetical....
There are shards of glass and pieces of rusty scrap metal embedded atop the wall surrounding your property. A criminal cuts themselves, gets an infection and loses a limb or dies. This is a “mantrap” and the property owner is guilty of murder?
He responded to an initiation of force and theft.
How he did so may not be how any of us would have done it, but with a similar result in a majority of cases.
Had it been me, I wouldn’t have “induced the moral hazard” by hiding my truck, but I also wouldn’t have failed to kill them with my opening salvo of gun fire. I’m a very good shot and do not waste ammo. Nor would I have failed to call the police until the next day, regardless of what Holiday it was.
How would the druggie thieves have been any less dead?
And keep the sexual innuendo out of this. There is no need to be perverse. Further insults along those lines will be referred to the Moderators.
But, look at the bright side. Two deserving folks were killed and a dangerous guy that might have killed an innocent, is off the streets.