No, actually I got that from real life. I had a friend who loved guns. Several times he thought he heard someone in his house and just started shooting bullets through walls. Incredibly he never got in trouble for it. This is the guy I've talked about who wanted a concealed carry license. The state of California wouldn't give him one so he moved to Nevada.
He was the only person I ever knew who legally owned a handgun.
I've known people who owned guns pretty much all the 50+ years of my life. I've never known any of them to be that irresponsible.
If he's taking the time to rape he's definitely getting caught.
The typical response time to a 911 call appears to be in the 7 to 10 minute range.
"Yeah, you just keep at it, buddy. You'll be sorry. The cops are on the way."
Okay, so you come out and tell the guy to leave. And he does. What do you do?
I probably wouldn't ask an intruder to leave unless I had a gun in my hand. If he's in my house stealing my stuff, he is already breaching our generally accepted social/property barriers. And I'll already consider him a risk to the safety of my home and family. Whether he gets the benefit of the doubt should be my call to make at that point, not his. He certainly hasn't earned it.
Yeah yeah, we can all make up a bunch of silly what-ifs where my hypothetical situation saves more innocent children than yours. Big deal. And your use of the straw man scenario of someone "sitting around with a hand cannon wishing someone looks at the house wrong so they can unleash a hail of lead" is nonsense. It's a dishonest misrepresentation of what people are actually saying.
No, it's an honest representation of what I think of people who want take someones life so they don't lose their
Grey's Anatomy blue ray set.
If you honestly think people are advocating "sitting around with a hand cannon wishing someone looks at the house wrong so they can unleash a hail of lead", there's a serious disconnect between reality and your assessment of it.
As you can tell I don't think very highly of them.
You don't think very highly of people who would choose to defend their property rather than watch someone steal it, yet if you caught a thief in the act, you think highly enough of him to ask him to leave. Interesting take, and one which you're certainly entitled to, but...
Yes, the only other option besides opening fire with a gun is to go hide in a closet.
Yes, the only other option besides opening fire with a gun our hiding in a closet is to help them with your stuff.
Apparently you live in a world where telling them to stop and leave or call the police
doesn't exist.
I live in a world where telling them to stop is only going to happen if I'm prepared to effectively defend my life, family, and property in the event that they don't heed my request. I also live in a world where calling the police to come gather evidence, interview witnesses, and write a report doesn't protect my home and family.
How many times do I have to tell people that I know I don't know that. That's why I don't want to be in a position of having to determine it.
I don't think any of us want to be in that position. Unfortunately wanting or not wanting has little bearing on reality.
They do sometime catch people in the act. But, yeah, largely they investigate crimes after they happened. So what?
So investigating a crime after it happens means it happened. Past tense. By various estimates, citizens with guns prevent a half million to two million crimes a year from even happening. They could just allow a million more crimes to occur and call the police when it's over. So what, eh?
Which is why I was ready to attack him if he actually tried to hurt someone. He didn't.
It appears we differ on that point. Rather than viewing it as attacking him, I view it as defending myself.
When my older brother was making & selling methamphetamine he often had an illegal gun on him. So did most of his drug business buddies. They were not, however, proficient in using them. At least one of his buddies accidentally shot himself when panicked once.
Anyways, the guns were to protect themselves from other drug dealers. It's conceivable a robber would also always be armed for protection from other robbers or whoever he intends to sell the stuff to.
It's conceivable a robber would always be armed? So you'd ask him to leave. Interesting, and certainly within your rights to take whatever risk you choose. If you're not comfortable with guns, it's probably best that you don't consider owning one or using one to defend your life, home, family, or property.
But if you want to protect the "bad guys" from the possibility of getting themselves killed in the line of duty, so to speak, maybe working to reduce the number of bad guys would be a good thing to do. Maybe it would be good to convince them that choosing those dangerous activities might get them killed.
