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Originally Posted by Jets4Life
The USA is very bizarre when it comes to just how far (legally) resident go to protect their property.
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Few years ago company I work for purchased a piece of equipment from a company in Texas. The owner and a small team of his guys were up for about two weeks installing it, calibrating/doing tests, and shooting some videos as it was a prototype that had a new material handling system from their previous models.
Seems when guys from different areas mix, casual stories back and forth can quickly paint a pretty distinct line as far as culture and values. Our safety policies (some company mandated, others law) were ridiculed to no end, and eventually a few of their guys were really pushing the envelope. Apparently the castle law/doctrine is a "get away with murder" loophole in the justice system, and two of these guys were proud as hell of the fact they had supposedly opened fire on unarmed "trespassers" (using the term loosely as I'm pretty sure the main qualifier was skin tone). I remember asking the owner if a shooting range couldn't satisfy his urge to squeeze off a couple rounds to blow off steam.. "It just doesn't feel the same" was a pretty sickening answer.
Scary to think there are "men" with badges who feel the same