Posted on 11/28/2012 7:28:26 AM PST by Uncle Chip
Edited on 11/28/2012 7:35:26 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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Yes and No. The facts at the scene of the shooting raised questions that had to be answered. His answers to those questions were a bit much.
Period, end of story....or should have been.
Is there a law that states how many times you can shoot a perp who breaks into your home?
For a victim to have his life destroyed, a criminal has to get lucky just once for a second. The victim must be alert, on guard, and physically capable of defending himself 24/7, 365, for life.
Only dead criminals can't come back when you're asleep, sick or injured.
He should have buried the bodies and kept his mouth shut.
As for me... Yes I would have shot them.... I would have done it in a way that insured that they could not attack or escape. i would have placed my shots in the lower torso and or legs.
But to place a kill shot under chin through the head to a young 100 pound girl.... That’s going to far... This man enjoyed the kills.
That might have been his intent, up to the point where the police visited his house and asked if he had seen the two, whose car was parked up the block.
I'm sure that is exactly what those whom lives are in danger and reacting accordingly, are standing there thinking.
"Hmmmm, are they still a threat?" If they're still breathing then yes, they are.
Those questions did not have to be answered, al least not then. He should have simply admitted firing the shots and refused to say anything more until he obtained an attorney and consulted with that attorney. That’s particularly true here where he apparently fired multiple times after the threats apparently ended and killed both perps. In any case like that the the homeowner is at risk of some serious charges and needs to consult an attorney before saying anything to the cops.
It's the young, cute 100 pound girls who are the most dangerous, because they can recruit horny 200 pound guys to do their bidding.
Welcome to the new America. Perhaps we are sick and tired of these a$$holes getting away with their crimes.
If they were to survive they would sue him into bankruptcy.
Hope he gets a great attorney.
Bingo. His only problem is that he said too much.
Ah, didn’t catch that. Defending your property is one thing. Executing them is another.
I'm sure that entered his mind but he couldn't get the bodies out of the basement without help. That may be why he called his brother after it happened to come down to help him.
He’d had most of his guns stolen already. All he’d had left were a Mini-14 and a .22 pistol.
He shot each of them as they came down the stairs. The woman was only wounded and possibly still a threat and his rifle jammed so he switched to the pistol.
He thought he’d killed her. As he was moving her body to the side, he noted she was still alive and choking to death on her own blood. Rather than let her expire painfully, he ended it for her with a single .22 shot into her brain.
Is that psychopathic? Are you sure?
Under MN law, he’s screwed. He’s going to jail forever.
However, these thieves deserved to die the minute they broke into his home. Period. We can quibble over method until the cows come home...
If that's why he executed them then the law up there needs to be changed to prevent civil action after a self defense shooting.
A .22 will not blow your head off.
Why all the sympathy for a drug abusing thief?
If they didn’t want to get shot dead, they shouldn’t have broken into his house.
I do not care how much she weighed.
True. Unfortunately the laws we have seem to protect the perps instead of the victims.
Some times bad behaviour catches up to people and they get Trayvon’ed.
Yes. Actually, the law is pretty clear on this matter. You can use lethal force to stop a threat. What you can't do is execute people regardless of whether or not one believes they deserved to be removed from the gene pool.
And Byron Smith will soon be joining Jerome Ersland as teaching examples to those among us who still remain confused.
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