I kind of share your sentiment, but to be fair, in most of these scenarios... by a large margin in fact, it's not 'random'.alphonso wrote:I find the post above kind of frightening.thedeceiver wrote:Wonder what the homeowner was up to.... Common criminals don't generally break into homes with assault rifles.
If, God forbid, someone broke into my house in the middle of the night and I had to shoot them the last thing I would need would be an arm-chair stranger who knows not a single thing about me or the details of the incident to "assume" that I was some sort of bad guy who had it coming.
Wow!
There was a recent story here in Houston (Katy area) of a father killed by a home invasion with his kids in the house. It sounded horrible and people were understandably pouring out grief and love for this family. Turns out, the dad was involved in drugs and it was a drug deal gone awry.
I agree the benefit of the doubt should be given to the home owner, especially by the police/DA, etc, but as a message board participant this kind of speculation is pretty understandable.