martybegan
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And you have all the facts? I don't live in the US, though I am an American, and this is the first time I have heard of this incident. It appears the homeowner lay in wait for this guy and then shot at him in a darkened garage, not caring if he killed him and not knowing if this kid was armed or not or meant any bodily harm to the homeowners. It's murder as far as I am concerned: not self defense or defense of your home. Material possessions are not as important as human life and this was a young kid, only 17, and unarmed.
As I said: you people simply delight in killing other people.
Homeowners do not exist so that they can be prey for anyone who wants to steal from them. The student had a choice. He could not steal. Because stealing had been successful in the past (this student had stolen from this homeowner twice before) he expected that he could take anything he wanted. He was wrong. The world has lost a thief. That's no real loss.
Death is not the punishment for housebreaking or theft. You are happy he is dead. That makes you a very sick person.
So the homeowner has to assume all the risk of a person breaking into their house? The homeowner has to ID the person, be assured that the person is armed, and THEN they are allowed to use deadly force?
I'm sorry, but the burden is on the person breaking INTO the house, not the homeowner.
This guy had a wife and a newborn it appears to defend. He had no way of knowing who was intruding into his garage. he was within his rights to defend himself from an unknown threat ON HIS OWN PROPERTY.