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Originally Posted by speede5
You can't be serious. if you can't control your emotions when someone is stealing so mething you can easily replace you have issues. If he was so concerned about protecting his wife and himself he wouldn't even have gone in the house. I don't know about Taber, but around here if the perps are still in the house when the call is made the cops come screamin' After the fact there is no rush, but if they can catch them in the act they try very hard.
BTW I didn't make any excuses for the looter. I don't feel sorry for him, I just don't agree with the vigilante approach. You are proposing a society that takes the law into it's own hands, slippery slope. Say you bump into my car in the parking lot and try to drive away, I get pissed off and bust your nose? Did you get what you deserved?
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I don't think anyone who gets emotional or combatative when they are faced with a (partially) unknown threat is unusual. Especially when that person is standing in the middle of my living room. Who knows what their intentions are. If they bolt the opposite direction, then I will likely let them leave and be happy with just the loss of property, but anything that is the least bit aggressive towards me or my family and all bets are off.
There is a reason I keep aluminium baseball bats in the front and back closets and it isn't for the Saturday morning softball game.