Bitterly cling to their guns

BPSCG said:
Not your fault. Without a sarcasm font, how are you supposed to be able to tell?

There must be someone you can sue. :rolleyes:
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Or maybe I can get disability. I could play it as a handicap.

Getting one of those handicap parking tags would be sweet.
 
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Oh - and - if I had a handgun, and the other guy had a shotgun, I'd be making for parts unknown, too, if I could.

It's lots harder to miss with a shotgun.

Also, if I see my accomplice go down, I'm suddenly in position of causing a death during the commission of a felony. That's a pretty bad place to be if the other place you are is Texas. (Death penalty and all....)
 
Gagglegnash said:
Also, if I see my accomplice go down, I'm suddenly in position of causing a death during the commission of a felony. That's a pretty bad place to be if the other place you are is Texas. (Death penalty and all....)
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I spose you're right... its far to much to assume they actually thought about the implications of using those guns they had in their hands during the commission of that felony.
 
My meter is broken because of the Global Warming threads (see if I ever buy a sarcasm/irony two for the price of one meter again), but from the increased sparkage, I think the OP was being sarcastic.

That or he's positively charged.
 
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madurobob said:
I spose you're right... its far to much to assume they actually thought about the implications of using those guns they had in their hands during the commission of that felony.
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In my experience, admittedly limited, I've found that people who think of the consequences of committing a crime before committing a crime... ummm... well... don't commit crimes.

I may just have to start hanging out with a better class of criminal. :o
 
Gagglegnash said:
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In my experience, admittedly limited, I've found that people who think of the consequences of committing a crime before committing a crime... ummm... well... don't commit crimes.

I may just have to start hanging out with a better class of criminal. :o
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"Hey, lets knock over a house tonight. I'm getting low on money."

"Yeah, but everyone in the neighborhood's at HOME, home!

"That's ok - we'll take a pistol and a shotgun. No one but the scared mother of a couple of small children would be stupid enough to go up against two armed men!"

...or something like that.

[ETA] ARRRGH! Drat. Quote instead of Edit!! DOH!!! (_8(|) [/ETA]
 
Drudgewire said:
Since every thread like this winds up breaking down into a discussion of gun control, I may as well beat the Christmas rush and point out Chicago (the city who plans to fight the Supreme Court ruling overturning the DC gun ban) is reporting today they've had twice as many Americans shot to death this summer as Iraq.
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If they had followed my advice and pulled out of Chicago 3 years ago, we would not be in this quagmire.
 
Marginally off-topic, but I said before that we didn't have a term for "home invasion" in Britain. In fact, there's a Scots word - hamesucken. It was a featured word in the paper earlier this week. It's not in everyday use though.

Googling it came up with quite a number of references, including this one from an online law dictionary.

Rolfe.
 
uruk said:
The incident happened in Texas. Texas has the castle law. It gives the homeowner the right to kill an intruder on thier property who are armed or intend bodily harm.

I assume the idea is for the law to act as an deterrent to anyone thinking of conducting a home invasion.

The Texas courts will view this as a textbook case of self protection under the castle law. Th Husband and wife will not be charged at all.

I live in Texas and have had my house broken into twice. The officers told me that if I or my wife are in the house during a break in or home invasion to shoot, and make sure to kill the intruder lest they survive and try to sue.

Honest to god they told me that in so many words.
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Many people have been told that by police. I didn't need to be told.
 
uruk said:
Again, Appologies for not picking up the sarcasm. Beerina's last statement might not be as facetious as it was intended.

While I was talking to those police officers after the second break-in to my house, I mentioned that I was planning to put up razor wire on my fence. The officer told me to think twice about that because he knew of a case where a criminal cut himself up badly trying to get through razor wire and successfully sued the homeowner for the injuries. Though I've never verified the incident.
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Booby Traps are illegal in Indiana.

IC 35-47.5-2-2
"Booby trap"
Sec. 2. "Booby trap" means a device meant to cause death or bodily injury by:
(1) hiding the device; or
(2) activating the device by trip wires, switches, antidisturbance, or other remote means.
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IC 35-47.5-5-10
Deploying a booby trap
Sec. 10. A person who knowingly or intentionally deploys a booby trap commits a Class D felony.
Source 1 Source 2.
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I see many companies using razor wire in Indiana. I would like to read this case you speak of....
 
uruk said:
I live in Texas and have had my house broken into twice. The officers told me that if I or my wife are in the house during a break in or home invasion to shoot, and make sure to kill the intruder lest they survive and try to sue.
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And it also makes their job easier.
 
ServiceSoon said:
Booby Traps are illegal in Indiana.



I see many companies using razor wire in Indiana. I would like to read this case you speak of....
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I tried to find the case the officer mentioned but could not locate it. The closest thing I can find is that some states do not allow private residences to use razor wire.
 
Beerina said:
Oh oh

I think that once she wrestled the shotgun away from the two men trying to kill her, she should have:


1. Told them to lie down
2. Fired a warning shot if necessary.
3. If they ran at her, she should shoot to wound, first
4. Make sure the toys on the front lawn were cleared out of the way lest one of the attackers running at her to try to murder her trip and injure himself, allowing him to sue her.



Since she did none of these things, she should get her ass handed to her in court, including a murder charge.
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She won't: Castle Defense. She's in the right. You trespass and the owner feels threatened, she can shoot.


Also, telling her 12 year old to get the 5 year old and hide probably caused psychological damage on the home invaders because they couldn't find kids to rape easily, yet another lawsuit on her.
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No way. She was right to tell the kids to hide as to not get them involved in the stray shots.
 
ladyattis said:
She won't: Castle Defense. She's in the right. You trespass and the owner feels threatened, she can shoot.
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He was being sarcastic. He also used "should", as in, that's what supposed gun control proponents would advocated.

No way. She was right to tell the kids to hide as to not get them involved in the stray shots.
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Again, sarcasm. It's a bit obvious here. ;)





I'm just going to put this up, before anyone else comes in and makes a similar post.

BEERINA WAS BEING SARCASTIC
 
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No, beerina was using sarcasm to create a straw man mocking the supposed extremism of gun control advocates. You will notice, however, that despite his biting satire no one has come out with a single criticism of the homeowners. Everyone seems to agree that they were entirely within their rights in their actions.
 
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