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Originally Posted by wgrimm
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.
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But two burglars broke into an unoccupied house and stole property. The man who killed them didn't warn them to stop when they left. He simply shot them dead. While the crime of burglary isn't defensible, I don't see how this action is either.