Should you be able to shoot anyone tryng to steal your property?

If you want to live a long and happy and healthy life you should keep your hands off of other people's belongings.

 

Just make sure that your shooting skills are good. Shoot them in the leg or arm where its not life threatening. It should discourage them enough that they will go away.

 

By committing a home invasion he has taken his life in his own hands alongside that tv.

 

This shows such a dearth of both legal knowledge and basic anatomy I'm not sure where to begin.

 

A bullet in the arm is a lot less death dealing than a shot through the heart. You didn't know this? There are lots of things to consider depending on the situation. I was in a firefight in Iraq. A bad guy was in a doorway about 300 meters away. I aimed center mass but only hit him in the hand. He ducked into the doorway and never came back. That was good enough for me.

 

You said to shoot them in the leg. The leg is filled with veins and arteries and the idea you can hollywood shot a leg and not swiftly kill someone is specious.

What's more: Shooting a firearm is per se use of deadly force in the US. If you admit you were aiming at anything but center mass, you're admitting deadly force was not required.

 

Listen... I spent a career in he Army. Given the option of taking one in the leg or the torso is a simple decision for anyone that has actually been shot at. The leg wins..I have seen a few get hit in the leg by a bullet. None died. I have seen a young female soldier get her let shredded by an IED. She was fine a year later.
I have never seen anyone get hit in the heart or head and survive. Heck, I've never even read about such a thing.
Yeah, I know about the law. That's why I wouldn't aim center mass at someone breaking into my house. I'd just make sure he/she was rolling around when the cops arrived.

 

Ask Ukraine right now...

 

And you would end up charged and likely convicted where someone who delivered a standard shot center mass would not be.

 

I just missed, Officer. Really.
But its really a moot point. This isn't Chicago, New York or LA which are all awash in violent crime. We don't have hardly any of that here. I don't expect to need a gun for self defense until Biden has led us into nuclear war or complete governmental breakdown and total chaos. Until then we won't have any significant crime like blue cities do.

 

It best to not shoot center of mass unless you have to, and don't shoot them in the back. Killing often creates a lifetime of regret, justified or not.
Next problem is not getting shot by the police. It happens. You are in shock. Put the gun on the floor away from you.
I would only shoot someone inside my house that didn’t immediately turn around and leave when I challenged him.
These threads make people think there is only one victim.

 

If I ever shot an intruder in my house, it would be ten minutes or so before the police arrived. I'd be deeply involved in a TV show by then, no threat to them at all and I'd offer them a cold drink. No reason for them to shoot me at all. Shooting someone threatening me and my family would cause me no regret... unless I missed.

 

O buddy you reeeeeeeallllllyyyyy don't understand how the discovery process works do you?
Let's say I was representing someone suing you for wrongful death in this instance, or crippling injury and damages stemming therefrom. Pick your poison.
I'd get an electronic copy of your phone and computers to look for social media (like this forum post) relevant to our case.
And here you are narcing on yourself. Oops.

 

You have no right to search through my social media. (By the way, I am not a child so I don't Tweet, do Facebook or any of those silly things. My private life is just that... private.)
"Narcing" on myself?
Sorry, my Kidspeak isn't very good.

 

Some people seem not to have left the middle ages behind.

 

They stole a lot back then?

 

I believe in Texas the law differs day/night. Hold your fire in daylight and shoot after dark. (might be a Comanche raid)

 

Lol again I don't think you understand how the discovery process works in a civil or criminal suit in the event of a shooting.


It's alright that you don't understand a term that grew up in the 60's, I'm also fluent in Boomer in addition to speaking a little jive

Narc: From the A person who reports to authorities see also: Snitch.
Narcing: The act of being such a person, see also: snitching.
You're testifying against yourself by these posts. If you shoot someone, the absolute first demand I'm making is for your social media if I'm either the prosecutor or a plaintiff's attorney. I'll also be getting a cloned copy of your harddrive so I can be sure you're not concealing anything. Can get your cell as well if you've ever posted from there.


As to no social media: The **** do you think this place is?

 

Ehm.....you are on social media right now talking about how you would kill people, and anyone can see your posts. Why do you think your posts are private?

 

Appreciate I'm a bit behind on the thread but I'd suggest a better way to think of this kind of question is to turn it around; Should someone be able to shoot you if they believe (honestly but wrongly) that you're trying to steal their property?

 

It's fairly simple. All this concern for the "unborn life" is just so much smoke and mirrors. They want to punish the woman for daring to have sex, that's all the anti-abortion laws are really about.

Conservatives generally feel they should be able to kill anyone they want, anytime at all. Why do you think they all have so many guns? They have this Wild West Mentality
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No conservative has ever been wrongfully accused of anything, in fact that's impossible. If you're ever accused of something, you're guilty. Only some woke liberal lawyer can help you then.

 

Discovery is not a license to violate someone's right of privacy.
Good luck tracking every entry on his forum, BTW.

 

all the concern for innocent life by gun banners is just so much smoke and mirrors. Gun banners want to punish gun owners for the audacity of calling bullshit on democrats' schemes to pretend gun control actually is crime control. . Democrats generally feel that criminals are victims of an unjust society and it is unfair for victims to be armed and actually kill the poor mopes who try to rape or rob them.

 

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