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On 10/19/2011 6:58 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:34:22 -0400, X `
wrote:

On 10/19/11 1:30 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:15:21 -0400, X `
wrote:

Had a young guy walk into my house a few years back, at 1:30 in the
morning.. I used a baseball bat to remove him, not a gun. Turns out he
was a escaped patient from a home down the street, and didn't know where
he was... If Harry had had the same, a innocent person would be dead
instead of just having a broken rib...

We're smart enough down here to tell the difference between a little
**** intent on violence (like you) and someone suffering from a
non-violent mental disorder.

I suppose we really don't know if this guy had violence on his mind.
He was taken out before he could do what he came there for.
It would be interesting to track him down and see what he is doing
now. If he turns out to have killed someone later, was not shooting
him better for society?
Breaking into a strangers house at 0130 is not an indication of a
person with good things on his mind.

As a purely legal thing, shooting someone and hitting them with a bat
is pretty much the same thing.

My assumption is that anyone breaking into the house has criminal intent.

I'm not a spy or a drug dealer or a terrorist, so if the police come
calling, it'll be during the day, they'll knock on the door and have
proper credentials.

At 1:30 am, whoever is breaking in pretty much deserves what he gets.

The only flaw in that theory is the number of times SWAT teams do
break into the wrong house or are just operating on bad information.
Remember the guy in Northern Va. He confronted a bunch of cops on a
bad raid with a muzzle loader and they had semi autos. (Ballou? maybe
James Ballou?)

one can only hope when it happens to harry, no cops get killed before
they blow his ass away...