Guy's house is robbed multiple times, sets up an ambush, kills two crooks

[Man of Ethics]

On an emotional level… Yes.

From a legal standpoint… Not in the least. 1st Degree Murder (x2)

Agree 100%.

Not his first two.

 

[9thIDdoc]

Oh please, people. That would only have been an ambush if they had been invited in. Break into someone's home you have earned whatever happens to you. This was a Vietnam vet so he had to be an old guy-possibly with vision problems in the dark. A .22 is about as non-lethal as a gun gets, much more likely to wound than kill and he was almost certainly aware of that. Wounding an armed assailant is a very bad idea because they have added incentive and ability to kill you and, if he could not know otherwise, he would have to assume they were armed and had every intention of killing or crippling him. I am also an old Vietnam vet and in a similar situation-with multiple assailants and only a .22 with which to defend myself I would plan to shoot until there was no more noise or movement. For us old guys the possibility of a life sentence is not much of a deterrent.

 

[Circe]

And hope the guy setting it off isn't, say, an EMT responding to a 911 call?

That's what the sheriff said on another occasion, when a lot of farmers were assembled to talk about an arsonist who was setting full hay barns on fire. I was there, one of the very few women, because I also had barns stuffed with good hay! And was also pretty worried. The sheriff asked, I think rhetorically, "What should you do if you find someone you don't know in your barn?"

And 60 big farmers all growled in unison ------ "Shoot him."

"No! No, no, don't do that! No!" said the startled sheriff. "What if it's a veterinarian in the wrong barn??"

About someone earlier pointing out the well-loved farm motto, Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up --- All these guys had a lot of land and back hoes. The arsonist never showed up again; I don't know what happened to him, but I suspect we all have made a guess at it.

 

[Mac-7]

The video is pretty long but there are a lot of details.

So this guy, Vietnam vet, good government job has his house robbed multiple times.

He sets up an ambush and waits for the burglars. He kills them both.

Justified?

He was tried and found guilty

the jury heard all the evidence and are better informed than anyone here

But I’d say they got what they deserved considering all the crimes they committed

 

[fncceo]

The video is pretty long but there are a lot of details.

So this guy, Vietnam vet, good government job has his house robbed multiple times.

He sets up an ambush and waits for the burglars. He kills them both.

Justified?

Hell, yeah...

 

[M14 Shooter]

One of about 200 -- 260 justifiable homicides which happen each year in USA.
At the same time, guns are used in at least 10,000 homicides and 20,000 suicides per year in USA.

And used for self-defense at least 100,000 times per year.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Americans are getting just that tired of being preyed upon.

And far too many are needlessly resorting to violence.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

while the cops are being told to either stand down, or have their hands tied by the courts

~S~

Yeah, those pesky Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

If Americans were really tired, they'd work to eliminate poverty, addiction and mental illness.

True – but conservatives aren’t interested in that.

Besides, it’s more fun to kill people.

 

[monkrules]

I knew a liquor store owner whose store had been burglarized several times. He began staying in the store overnight, waiting for the thief to return.

One night, about two in the morning, the thief came in through a window. The store owner welcomed him with a 12 gauge greeting. Killed the worthless mofo.

Don't know how he explained the shooting to the cops, but he got away with no legal problems. But the guy started drinking and always seemed kind of sad after killing the thief.

 

[sparky]

I knew a liquor store owner whose store had been burglarized several times. He began staying in the store overnight, waiting for the thief to return.

we set up camera's around my mechanic's shop, who was hit multiple times by local thieves . last hit recorded car and perp (in hoodie) , but cops claim the courts need 'full face' recognition.

all the cops know this kid, so do we , we even know who he's fencing stolen goods to.

my mechanic wears a 9mm now, cops are all for it!

~S~

 

[CrusaderFrank]

As there's no duty to retreat in Minnesota, I would say shooting them would be justified. But he didn't just shoot them. He executed them. You're only allowed to use enough force to stop the threat. Seems he went beyond that and continued shooting them even after he stopped the threat. So in that regard, not justifiable.

Oh, you mean like Ashli Babbitt, right?

 

[sparky]

Yeah, those pesky Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments.

Remind me which one includes the 'right to law & order', next time some 'effin politician tells the cops to stand down due to a riot Clay

~S~

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Remind me which one includes the 'right to law & order', next time some 'effin politician tells the cops to stand down due to a riot Clay

~S~

The more the cops stand down, the closer we get to that condition that the leftist pansies are so scared of and actually think we're at right now, the lawlessness of the wild west. I actually think that time in our history was a lot tamer than they think it was. People had to be more polite when everyone was armed.

The fun will really start when they have made the law so irrelevant that we actually become Wyatt Earp. We will then be the law. I wanna be Doc Holliday.

BTW, everyone in my neck of the woods IS armed. Bring on the fun!

 

[sparky]

The more the cops stand down, the closer we get to that condition that the leftist pansies are so scared of and actually think we're at right now, the lawlessness of the wild west. I actually think that time in our history was a lot tamer than they think it was. People had to be more polite when everyone was armed.

The fun will really start when they have made the law so irrelevant that we actually become Wyatt Earp. We will then be the law. I wanna be Doc Holliday.

BTW, everyone in my neck of the woods IS armed. Bring on the fun!

methinks we may be seeing the tip of that iceberg OPJQ.....

~S~

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

methinks we may be seeing the tip of that iceberg OPJQ.....

~S~

Yep.

 

[sparky]

i should add, i'm not an anarchist , nor do i look forward to anarchy.

i'm a retired emt that stood behind many a cop doing their duty

it's a tough job, requires a lot of patience , but when ya need 'em, ya need 'em......

~S~

 

[Desperado]

 

[Blues Man]

The video is pretty long but there are a lot of details.

So this guy, Vietnam vet, good government job has his house robbed multiple times.

He sets up an ambush and waits for the burglars. He kills them both.

Justified?

This is an old case.

And I think he got convicted.

SO no it wasn't justified.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

This is an old case.

And I think he got convicted.

SO no it wasn't justified.

It is an old case. He was convicted. Justified or not, it will get more and more common. The left has created something they cannot control for long. Pretty myopic, but then............yeah................