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aikoaiko

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26. Except no one has actually said that.

Reply to baldguy (Reply #24)

Sun May 27, 2012, 09:25 AM

May 2012

People are saying that its ok to use lethal force when someone of unknown mental capacity is illegally in your house in the middle of the night and advancing toward you and your family after being warned to stop.

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Drunk college grad shot after wandering into a stranger's house. [View all] Liberal_in_LA May 2012 OP

Forget background checks for guns - we need IQ checks. Initech May 2012 #1

Why? Someone's in your house at 3:30 in the morning, coming at you after you've said you're armed... TheWraith May 2012 #2

In this case the IQ check should have been given to the woman who got drunk mythology May 2012 #4

True - kind of hard to argue there. Initech May 2012 #11

I guess because the couple are "rich" unreadierLizard May 2012 #5

I would have done the same thing obamanut2012 May 2012 #13

Hard to blame them. MrSlayer May 2012 #3

I thought that, too obamanut2012 May 2012 #15

That's exactly the right response. TheWraith May 2012 #16

We were taught this in my CCW permit class obamanut2012 May 2012 #25

What does "college grad" have to do with the story? Fumesucker May 2012 #6

Probably to convey that she was a young woman of college age. TheWraith May 2012 #8

I think it's supposed to explain why she was THAT drunk. LeftyMom May 2012 #10

Hopefully she'll recover well and not make stupid mistakes like that again. aikoaiko May 2012 #7

Who needs to lock your doors when you've got firearms? muriel_volestrangler May 2012 #9

And WE shot her. GreatCaesarsGhost May 2012 #12

We had a drunken yuppie break into our condo (row of identical buildings) Peregrine Took May 2012 #14

+1000 ellisonz May 2012 #23

The idea that some people think it's perfectly OK to shoot someone who's incapacitated is appalling. baldguy May 2012 #24

Except no one has actually said that. aikoaiko May 2012 #26

No one said that, did they? obamanut2012 May 2012 #27

Let's look at #2, #4, #11, #13, baldguy May 2012 #28

I could see how that could be very scary for the homeowners. ZombieHorde May 2012 #17

"She's fine. But she's shot." Kaleva May 2012 #18

That also caught my attention Cali_Democrat May 2012 #20

Odd way of putting that also. 1620rock May 2012 #19

This is why I never drink enough to get that drunk. Odin2005 May 2012 #21

They left their door unlocked proud2BlibKansan May 2012 #22

You're kidding, right? lynne May 2012 #30

And the rape victim was dressed sexy, too. TheWraith May 2012 #33

Her lawyer is probably going to plea for the drunken coed discount nt MrScorpio May 2012 #29

That happened to my cousin's husband Mz Pip May 2012 #31

When people get that helplessly drunk Nye Bevan May 2012 #32