AR-15 assault rifle used by teen to defend home

[Precocity]

[cool_chick]

It just seems people are desparately trying to fit this particular crime into the violent category, and I don't understand why. Why are they trying to skew the facts? The kid did nothing wrong, though I wish he chose another option that's available to him and I am sooo happy this perp didn't die (I'm also considering the mental impact of the child, something the wild-west people don't seem to care about or something).

Someone breaking into your house is traumatizing, and it is going to be a long, long time before these two kids feel safe at home (if at all, sadly). Thank God they also don't have to deal with the lifelong scar of killing another human as well (provided they aren't sociopaths, which I am assuming they aren't).

[The Dharma Bum]

No, CC, you just can't seem to comprehend the concept that even though burglary is considered a non violent crime that in no way means that a burglar is never going to get violent when they confront a victim in their home.

[The Dharma Bum]

BTW there is another recent case in OK where a guy broke into a house with a 12 yo girl who proceeded to hide in the bathroom with the family pistol. She shot and wounded the intruder as he opened the bathroom door where she was hiding. She had no other way out.

Do you think she should have not shot the guy or had access to a pistol?

I think it saved her life.

[cool_chick]

No, Dharma, you just can't seem to comprehend the concept that chances are a burglar probably won't be violent when they confront a victim in their home. You want them to be violent. You thirst for blood.

[dontworrybehappy]

[The Dharma Bum]

[cool_chick]

[dontworrybehappy]

[The Dharma Bum]