Sir,
A whole lot of people are condemning you for proposing that lethal force be employed to protect a 1994 Corolla. Nevermind that Florida law allows for this, I’m dismayed that so many FReepers would be sucked into the idea that their property rights can be so easily trumped.
Let me ask those of you who are saying it is ‘murder’ to use lethal force to stop the destruction of a car what they’d have to say if instead of a 1994 Corolla it were a 2011 Ford Police Interceptor owned by the Florida State Police?
Should the cop just let the criminal destroy the car or would it be of any surprise to anyone here that the cop would shoot and kill anyone trying to destroy a police car?
And who here would call such a cop a ‘murderer’?
Hmm?
The same principle applies whether it is a police car or someone’s 1984 Yugo crapbox. No one has a right to destroy it and in a state like Florida the rights of the law abiding trump the rights of the brigands any and every day of the week.
Which is as it should be.
Megan
Thank you for your comments, but I think they are in vain.
Free Republic is becoming a haven for bleeding hearts who think “Don’t Tread on Me” is a euphemism for “Keep Off the Grass.”
Yup.
In most places the police derive many of their powers from the same law ALL citizens do.