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jason812 wrote:

locke_n_load wrote:
There is a firearm in my vehicle at all times. I don't know how I would feel if they stole it and killed someone with it, if at the time of the theft, I was there to stop it.

Plus, you don't know if they have it or not when you confront them. It would suck to get shot, it would suck more to get shot by your own gun.

It would really suck to get shot by a gun that I own because it would work, and it would be loaded with very effective ammo.

Maybe I should go get a non-functioning Hi-point to keep in my car just in case someone wants to shoot me with my own gun.

bblhd672 wrote:Ft. Worth Star Telegram Editorial Board says in opinion piece: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/ed ... 22579.html

The neighbor in this case apparently had every “right” under the law to kill. But killing in the defense of property can never be right.
Shooting someone can only be right when it is to protect a person.

Liberals hardly ever can be on the side of law abiding citizens.

Here's how I think about it.

Is a car (or it's contents) worth a human life? Well I know it's not worth my life, or the lives of my loved ones, because I know the value of those lives. I would think that it's also not worth the life of a random person who I find in my driveway in the middle of the night.

But here's the thing. That random person believes their life is not worth more than my car, since they decided that is a potential trade off they are willing to make the moment they decided to steal my car. And who am I to think that I know the value of their life better then they do? If they really value their life that low, then I'm not going to waste time arguing with them about it.