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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's like the case I saw reported on the BBC News recently from your home state, Texas, where someone had gone out of his house with a shotgun and murdered, in cold blood, two men who had broken into his neighbour's house. Yes, we'd all accept that burglary is a crime, but it certainly isn't one for which the death sentence is appropriate, and there's never any justification for someone to take the law into their own hands. The appalling thing in this particular case is that the man who committed these murders had not even been arrested. I was absolutely horrified to hear that  . |
Sounds to me like those 2 burglars pretty much got what they deserved. If someone ever breaks into my house, if I was in a very chipper mood, they MIGHT get a single warning. I am not going to risk my wife and kids lives when dealing with intruders. Who knows whether that intruder just wants to steal a tv set or wants to murder the inhabitants of the house. IMHO, if a person breaks into a residence, he deserves anything he gets, including multiple shotgun blasts to the head. That's not "cold blood," that's self-defense.