Whenever the Liberals bring up gun control, typically they say, “no one is going to take your guns”, well here is a case where the power of government was used to confiscate guns from a law abiding citizen defending his property.
“...a law abiding citizen defending his property.”
A law abiding citizen is required only to protect his property from the inside in Missouri.
571.030. 1. A person commits the crime of unlawful use of weapons if he or she knowingly:
(4) Exhibits, in the presence of one or more persons, any weapon readily capable of lethal use in an angry or threatening manner.
By exhibiting the weapon, he violated the law. I don’t think the law is in the best interest of the property owner, but it’s the law. Get it changed and reality will seep in. Otherwise the owner will have to wait until forced to protect and it won’t be property at that point. It’ll be some dead people. And the law does not establish a deterrent to the process and embolds the criminal with false reality of carte blanc.
rwood