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Originally Posted by bobalong
The people who advocate using firearms to defend against thieves (myself included) are for the scenario that was posted by Spank. As soon as you enter the house with a firearm you are no longer just a thief but are now a potential murderer.....you have crossed the line. We are not suggesting you run out into the yard and shoot someone running away down the alley but entering the house armed changes everything.
If thieves come into the house carrying a firearm, they have threatened my family and I with deadly force, the carrying of a firearm confirms this. In a case like this I do not believe at the time I would worry about being charged.
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We were doing a cross country promotional years ago for Arctic Cat after they had closed shop and restarted. Escorting two older guys riding brand new machines from New Brunswick to Thief River Falls, MN where the factory would put their sleds back on the assembly line, rebuild them to as new, ship them back to them and fly them home. We were the tour guides for the North Bay to Sudbury section to get them across Lake Ni****ing to their next leg. We had to meet their Sudbury connection at a little whistle stop in a town called Warren. An on duty OPP officer was part of the Sudbury contingent.
At lunch my father noticed he only had two and a half fingers on his right hand. His thumb and index finger were missing and he had only half his middle finger. After a short query he related a story about being on duty and having two guys he had previously arrested for child molesting and released on bail decide they would rather go to jail as cop killers than child molestors as it was common knowledge he said child molestors were targets in prison. So one night while on duty in the station house alone they walked in and pointed a 303 rifle at him. He pulled his revolver thinking they would back down their threat at the sight of his gun but instead they opened fire blowing the revolver out of his hand and sending a flurry of shots at him as he scrambled for cover through a steel door leading to the holding cells in the station before they turned and ran out of the station thinking they’d killed him with the shots they fired through the door at him.
In lieu of current events here getting worse and worse to the point of crimes being committed by armed thieves I am reminded of the policemans words that day when he said never would he make such a misjudgement again regarding an armed criminal.
He said and I quote “should there be a next time I would rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6”.