AR-15 assault rifle used by teen to defend home

[Medius]

I still don't understand why it matters how the crime is classified. If you blast through a school zone at 120 miles per hour and a kid jumps in front of your car, is it murder? It's an accident. However, it is an accident created through such gross negligence that it becomes indistinguishable from murder.

Breaking into someone's house is similar. By doing so, you create such a dangerous environment that harm or death become much more likely. It may be that you get shot, or maybe you'll shoot them with the gun you didn't intend to use out of "self defense". Or they may shoot and miss and hurt someone else inside. Or maybe you encounter someone you know inside and now have to choose between a guaranteed jail sentence or murder. Maybe you will just get cornered and decide to fight your way out, harming the inhabitant.

Breaking into a house creates enough of a dangerous situation, that whether or not it is violent, it should be considered violent. This is why I said that I don't care about their tragic story or benign intentions. Once you break into a house, you are throwing your life away. You've now become, to the unknowing occupant, a murderer, rapist, arsonist, child killer. There is absolutely no way for him to know that you are down on your luck looking for a TV to sell for food. Nor should he be expected to care.

[Ben Huh]

[The Comrade]

[Medius]

[Indy]

[Medius]

[J.K. Gregg]

I'm with you on this Medius. You've demonstrated enough intent to harm by breaking into someone else's home that I'd feel my life and the lives of my family are in danger, thus warranting lethal force in their defense.

[The Comrade]

if you say "get the f**k out of my house" and rooster your gun and they don't flee you've determined that they are in fact insane and dangerous. if they hear you and try fleeing and you shoot them you should kill yourself next because you've effectively determined that the possible loss of your shit is worth more than the life of a person.

[Medius]

[PoS]

Well all the librulz can run out of their house the moment an intruder enters it- good luck on that because you wont know whats out there plus they may even have accomplices waiting outside. As for me if someone dares enter my house without my permission I will take great pleasure in blasting his head off.