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Personal accountability. Don't enter a mental state where you can't identify your own house.
Should I just allow someone to kick my door in?
Where the fuck were his friends? Sounds like he was blackout drunk. No one was sober enough to look out for him?
Folks, if you friend gets this smashed, don't let them wander off by themselves. All manner of bad could happen. Simply falling in a bad enough spot may be enough. People have been known to drown in their own vomit.
If we did a better job of looking out for each other, it wouldn't come to these shitty situations in the first place.
Regardless of how drunk you are, you should not get shot for a silly mistake which endangered no one. Gun laws and this obsession of defending private property in ALL cases is simply stupid. Losing your life because you got drunk is stupid
It wasn't a "silly" mistake.
I've been drunk plenty of times, but I've never smashed through a window and reached through broken glass to try to open a locked door. Most drunk people know better than to literally break into a house.
You're different than other people? I thought we were all the same.
Most people are just like me. A few make drastically different choices.
Do you routinely physically break open doors when you're drunk?
Well technically, calling 911 on a break in is just outsourcing the shooting, so imo he can't even call the men with guns to use the guns he doesn't think should be used.
Exactly! All the gun haters, which are usually also Police haters are real quick to judge gun owners, until something terrible happens, then their excuse for everything is call the guys with guns. Which of course ends with them crying when it comes to using them. Like any cop WANTS to shoot and kill a person.
TBF I'm sure some do, the job does seem to attract some unsavory characters sometimes. Most in my area are alright tbh but we have a guy or two that seem like they're just itching for the chance and they're so mad that you have any rights.
Still though, yeah, outsourcing violence because you're afraid to defend yourself is one thing, but taking the option away from others is another thing entirely. My gripe is that in either case the potential for violence exists and to persecute one for doing it themselves vs outsourcing it to the police is a wishy washy bullshit stance, it is either justified or not and the uniform isn't the deciding factor.
"banged and kicked on the door" ≠ "kick door in"
He was drunk and frustrated. He was likely kicking the base of the door trying to be loud enough to wake a roommate to open the door since he couldn't get his key to work and was confused. Castle doctrine should not have applied here as he was likely not an obvious threat. The shooter could probably have talked with him through the door or, heaven forbid, actually opened the door and talked with him to figure out what was going on and helped the obviously inebriated young man home.
Castle doctrine is intended for when someone is making an obvious threat with deadly intent. The way it is being implemented here you can shoot a proselytizing baptist dead on your porch because they were there to attack your soul.
He did more than make noise:
Regardless of what you think about gun laws, I think the resident had good reason to be concerned for his safety.
Problem is, if he is trying to hurt you, you've just given him access to do so easily so that you can "make sure" he actually wanted to hurt you. And maybe you have the privelege to do dangerous shit like that, maybe you're 7'8" 300lbs and have adamantium bones, but some of us do not. Some of us are 5'6" 150lbs soaking wet, some of us are women, some of us are handicapable, not all of us are as priveleged as you to be able to fight off 1-5 guys with unknown weapons (even just knives) singlehandedly so they can brag about it, personally I'm incapable of doing that and I don't want to put myself in harms way simply because the guy breaking into my house might have the wrong house or might want to rape and murder me in quiet seclusion.
No, but shooting them is an extreme reaction. I'm a woman alone. If this would have happened to me, I'd have barricaded the door, fled to another part of the house (there's more than one door in), put more barricades in between us and made absolutely sure I screamed the neighbourhood awake. Once there's more people to subdue him, the main problem is solved. Damages are to be covered by insurance. Now if he carried a gun, that's an entirely different matter. Still, I don't own a gun, never will, don't think I'll ever need one. Once a culture sees "shooting someone" as a first solution, things are down the drain imho.
So rely on other people to help. Ever hear of the story of Kitty Genovese? Dozens of people either saw her getting stabbed or heard her screams and nobody intervened or called the cops. Thanks, but no thanks.
They were already on the phone with cops. I'm just buying time until they arrive. And he's a drunk, as far as we know not a murderer. My first instinct is not to kill anybody who has a slightly bad day.
Fight or flight. Some people run while others don't. You can run all you want and assume they are drunks I have seen the darker side of humanity and will not assume the person doesn't mean harm. Hindsight it's easy to say oh he was just a drunk having a bad day. But when it's 2am and they break a window to open the door, my first thought isn't "this guy must be drunk"
Responsibility here would be being charged with murder and serving time
For defending yourself against someone who is physically breaking your door open at 2 in the morning?
What was the threat against his life?
Someone breaking into your house? You have no idea what kind of weapon (including a gun themselves) someone who is physically breaking into your house has.
Then why are you firing on them if you have a gun and you haven't taken other steps to protect yourself. Blind firing is not self defense its irresponsible and caused the death of an innocent kid
No it wouldn't, don't be a retard. READ what he did the homeowner had EVERY reason to assume he was dealing with a home invasion.
At least charged with murder and let a jury hear the particulars.
I agree
Exactly-- no one wants to take responsibility for themselves anymore, and then has the nerve to complain when they are justifiably executed on the spot. Maybe you won't have that last beer next time
"justifiably executed". Jesus Christ man how psychotic are you?? Terrifying
You wanna know what's REALLY justifiable, buddy? Not reading the obvious sarcasm in phrases like "executed on the spot" because the US gun culture is deranged
Every country other than the US has wild break-in issues with fatal robberies happening 24/7 because they don't have guns.
Produce some data of shut the fuck up
Hmmmm
It's called what I hoped would be obvious sarcasm lol
lol