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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When someone kicks your door in and then sticks around long enough to get shot, they aren't playing a "prank."

In I think it was Ohio a few years back it was a national story when a high schooler living in an apt in a ritzy town claimed to have gotten lost on his way to school and was trying to get into a home. The elderly homeowner shot in the air as the boy ran off (so-called warning shot), not even at the kid, and the court system still railroaded the man. 5 years in prison or something near that. I think it was later revealed the teen was in the alternative high school. I'm assuming the boy's family also sued the man.

Oddly enough, legally speaking, if someone fires a "warning shot", they are more likely to become the victim of the law than the criminal.

The legal reason being that if you didn't feel your life was threatened enough to shoot to kill/stop the perp, that you shouldn't have shot at all, and shooting, even into the ground or air, was illegal and often they will try to tack on assault charges on top of it.

So the moral to the story is.....never bring out a gun until you are ready to use it and need it.

Anonymous wrote:Wasn’t there a case recently when a woman got lost, tried to ask for directions only to be shot by a homeowner?

Anonymous wrote:That little motherfuϲkеr deserved what he got. I would have immediately shot him in the head. Parents, teach your kids not to do these stupid pranks and this won't happen.

Anonymous wrote:Wasn’t there a case recently when a woman got lost, tried to ask for directions only to be shot by a homeowner?

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Anonymous wrote:Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Homeowner was black, teen was white. Allegedly the homeowner thought the teens were trying to break in.

Well, if it was the other way around I’m sure there would already be rioting.

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Anonymous wrote:I tell my boys that they need to remember that they should assume that every car and every home has a guy with a gun who is itching to use it against someone like them. Triple for Virginia.

It's sad but kids make choices that put them in harms way. Triple for boys.

You tell them that but not, “don’t go ringing random doorbells at 3 am?”

Just curious whether you were born stupid or dropped on your head as a baby?

…and not “don’t do stuff that annoys or terrifies people”?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I tell my boys that they need to remember that they should assume that every car and every home has a guy with a gun who is itching to use it against someone like them. Triple for Virginia.

It's sad but kids make choices that put them in harms way. Triple for boys.

You tell them that but not, “don’t go ringing random doorbells at 3 am?”

Just curious whether you were born stupid or dropped on your head as a baby?

Anonymous wrote:I tell my boys that they need to remember that they should assume that every car and every home has a guy with a gun who is itching to use it against someone like them. Triple for Virginia.

It's sad but kids make choices that put them in harms way. Triple for boys.

Anonymous wrote:That little motherfuϲkеr deserved what he got. I would have immediately shot him in the head. Parents, teach your kids not to do these stupid pranks and this won't happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Spotsylvania has had racial problems in the past. The SO is very much a gold old boys network.
The fact the homeowner is in jail still is kinda mind blowing.

You shoot someone in the back, you go to jail.

Anonymous wrote:They rang the doorbell and got shot? wtf???

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When someone kicks your door in and then sticks around long enough to get shot, they aren't playing a "prank."

In I think it was Ohio a few years back it was a national story when a high schooler living in an apt in a ritzy town claimed to have gotten lost on his way to school and was trying to get into a home. The elderly homeowner shot in the air as the boy ran off (so-called warning shot), not even at the kid, and the court system still railroaded the man. 5 years in prison or something near that. I think it was later revealed the teen was in the alternative high school. I'm assuming the boy's family also sued the man.

Oddly enough, legally speaking, if someone fires a "warning shot", they are more likely to become the victim of the law than the criminal.

The legal reason being that if you didn't feel your life was threatened enough to shoot to kill/stop the perp, that you shouldn't have shot at all, and shooting, even into the ground or air, was illegal and often they will try to tack on assault charges on top of it.

So the moral to the story is.....never bring out a gun until you are ready to use it and need it.