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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 652341, member: 13650&quot;]Wrong.&nbsp; If your life is threatened you have the right to use deadly force to stop the aggression.&nbsp; &nbsp; If he would have put a bullet in them, the cops probably would have shook his hand and left.&nbsp;&nbsp; Instead, he&#039;s dead now and the cops had to risk their lives to apprehend the suspects.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; He had a chance to grab a gun before he went to the door.&nbsp; I would never answer the door for an &#039;unexpected&#039; guest at night with out my Glock.&nbsp; If it&#039;s during the day, I have other firearms I could get to very easily.&nbsp;&nbsp; So there&#039;s a good chance you won&#039;t hear about me getting beaten to death in my own home.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Everyone else can worry about the laws and these animals&#039; feelings.&nbsp; No, they&#039;re less than animals.&nbsp; You see, there&#039;s an element of society that is less than animals but nobody wishes to acknowledge, talk about or prepare for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Who am I?&nbsp; I&#039;m &#039;Joe Public&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; And you can assume that 1 in every &#039;X&#039; number of homes has somebody living there that thinks like me.&nbsp; So the bad guys take their chances.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Sometimes these guys luck out and only get arrested after they beat someone to death.&nbsp; Sometimes not.&nbsp;&nbsp; Luckily, I&#039;m a good person and I&#039;m willing to give everyone a chance to be arrested before they are shot.&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#039;m not interested in their background and I&#039;m not the one looking for trouble.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; In this instance, as is typical with most crimes of this nature, the cops finally were able to show up to clean up the mess and fill out the report.&nbsp; So I guess it would seem we&#039;re primarily on our own when confronted with a similar situation.&nbsp;&nbsp; Forget about safety deposit boxes.&nbsp; I think the lesson learned is you&#039;re either ready to deal with this situation or you&#039;re not.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can make excuses till hell freezes over but it won&#039;t do you much good when these guys show up at your door.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; With more people falling on hard times, there will surely be increasing numbers of people more desperate than ever these days.&nbsp; And I think we&#039;re still in the good times for now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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