[Stoat]

blow the scumbag's head clean off. (after-burglary cleanup is still the homeowner's responsibility, however).

Not in the Kerry states. Self defense is a much more serious crime than robbery in NYC, NJ, MA, CT IL (Chicago especially),ME, MD, RI, and Kalifornia.

Even in the case of a clear-cut home invasion robbery with an armed intruder?  This is news to me, and I'm very sorry to hear it.  It shows that we still have a great deal of work to do in ensuring basic rights to all law-abiding citizens of the United States.

blow the scumbag's head clean off. (after-burglary cleanup is still the homeowner's responsibility, however).

Not in the Kerry states. Self defense is a much more serious crime than robbery in NYC, NJ, MA, CT IL (Chicago especially),ME, MD, RI, and Kalifornia.

[from occupied ga]

Even in the case of a clear-cut home invasion robbery with an armed intruder?

Yep. Just last year a NYC man was sentenced to prison for defending his daughter from a home invader in her bedroom. His crime? nominally using an unregistered handgun. His real crime? self-defense in the Peoples Democracy of NYC.

[from occupied ga]

great deal of work to do in ensuring basic rights to all law-abiding citizens of the United States

It's not worth it. People in the Kerry states don't want rights. With rights come terrifying (to them at least) responsibilities. Take a poll in Chicago, Boston or NYC on whether gun ownership should be restricted more, less or the same as now. Most likely 80% would say more. These people aren't worth saving. they should be given to Quebec and simultaneously become French and Canadian.