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Statkowski wrote:
Good shot with a 20-gauge!
If I remember correctly, one can protect property in addition to one's life.
I don't know about that my friend.
I have ULTRA sympathy for anyone who shoots a looser who tries to steal there only car, specially a single poor working mom whose only car is getting ripped off.
"BUT" as far as I know there is no death penalty for stealing, or car burgling for the stereo, that is why I am still alive today because I have been on both sides , as a juvenile thief who ripped off a couple cars for joy rides, burgled a couple houses in the middle of the day (( got away with it all & changed my ways ))
Then as a young adult who grew up and learned the hard way how lame it is to get ripped off when I worked so hard for my own stuff and changed my ways when I started working for my stuff and valuing it .
I chased down a motorcycle thief trying to steal my only ride , I car chased them down and got in a rolling shoot out with him and his buddies (( he was X'ed by me ))
A brutal hard miserable & long story I have not yet decided to relay in depth here.
But check this out , Example: "stealing" some water from your garden hose for my over heating pickup truck should get me shot ???, I mean after all I am trespassing "and" stealing, right .
The neighborhood 12 year old walks off with your mower are you gona gun him down ???
The law was changed in the supreme court about 25 years ago that cops cannot shoot a fleeing ( ohhhh say car burglar ) felon in the back if he is unarmed and not a threat to near by bystanders.