MadPick for King and Pierce Co Sheriff would fix a bunch of thieving dirty bastards now wouldn't it?

Sad for the home-owner, but thumbs up for the message sent to shit stains who perpetrate crimes like this.

Bad guy is dead.

I hear you. Trust me, I've had my ass unexpectedly handed to me a few times. I guess it really boils down to assessing the threat and that will always be subjective.

I don't have a problem with shooting and/or killing a potential predator if I knew that I had exhausted any other means available to me first. I wouldn't lose a wink of sleep standing over the corpse if I knew in my own mind it was a me or him situation. Maybe that "me or him" situation was the case for this particular homeowner/father but there just isn't enough information for myself, personally, to judge as of yet.

Edit: Don't mistake my hesitance to judge as compassion for burglars because that would be absolutely incorrect. I will say, if I knew the guy was a known sex predator I would have felt like I did the world a favor by shooting the bastard, even if he was running away!

And this is why you're in great shape and I'm a fat guy. I'd shoot an intruder without even getting up off the couch. And as long as he wasn't bleeding out on the tile in the entryway (blood stains in grout are a PITA!) I'd call the cops from the couch too.

The best part is that you aren't even joking.

here's the thing about being forced to intervene to protect home and hearth:


once you have determined that action is necessary, confronting a criminal without a weapon isn't wise. And I wouldn't say "freeze!" or "halt!"

remember the good samaritan that tried to stop the shooting at the Tacoma Mall?

Once you initiate contact, do not hesitate.

So yer saying they mighta thought it was you?

+100000000

Guns are the great equalizer. Without them we revert to the 1300s and Rule by the Strong. Brigands would rule the road.

A gun lets 90lb grandma stop a 250lb thug.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews ... ontext=amp

We'll said MadPick, could not agree more.

You've bolded it wrong, I fixed it for you. If you were right, then the idiots that shoot people driving off in their stolen cars from their driveway would be acquitted.

My guess this will be ruled a good shoot because the kids were in the room the dirtbags were entering.

You mean idiots like this?
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/a ... f-fleeing/
How many on the jury do you think really swallowed the "Parthian Shot" line?

Fyi, you cannot commit a felony against property. Grand theft auto is not a crime against the car, it's a felony committed against the car OWNER.

Burglary is not the same as robbery.

I'm aware of that...I should have made a complete sentence.

The Italicized 'threat' in my first statement is what I was referring to that can be removed by lethal force.

A Burglar can not, unless he's a "Imminent Threat".

It is not legal IMHO to shoot a Burglar.....I'm not a lawyer, just been to quite a few LE run self defense Firearm classes.

If the burglar is going after or "THREATENING" the well being of your kids then that's a different story.

If the burglar is looking in the window that just so happens to be your kids room and you snipe his ass...you may be in deep shit.

IMHO...

Used violence ie broke a window to get in = propensity for violence, cars in driveway (assuming) means burglars knew someone was home, doesn't take a rocket surgeon for a 'reasonable person' to infer that force was gonna be used on the occupants as it had already been used to gain entry.

Good shoot.

Good shoot, bad shoot... I don't care.

If I see your face peering in my child's bedroom, you are going to get a face full of lead.

I don't care what your reason might actually be or what excuse you might come up with.