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In reply to the discussion: 15 year old knocks at wrong house. Shot and killed by homeowner [View all]Igel
(35,300 posts)22. Most people aren't fortunate enough to know how things will turn out in advance.
You see something dangerous--some guys breaking your door and shouting--you have to wonder what's going on. You don't know who they are and you don't have all the hindsight information we suffer from. (Yes, "suffer," because it's severely injuring any sense of perspective we might have. We know all this. Why didn't the guy with the gun?)
A couple of teenagers barged into the house of a woman a few blocks away from where I live. Surprised by seeing the woman in the house, when she yelled at them they shot her. They stole her tv and left. Weren't ever caught, and alarm services did a great business around here for a while.
We evaluate risk badly.
We tend to think we and ours are more important than others.
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15 year old knocks at wrong house. Shot and killed by homeowner [View all]
Liberal_in_LA
Jul 2016
OP
Homeowner, hears banging on door. We don't know what the kids were saying while banging on door.
Hoppy
Jul 2016
#5
+1, the rules of engagement for our troops in war zones are higher than most cities and cops !!!
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#14
Right to be scared, sure. Right to fire blindly like an asshole, no fucking way.
CBGLuthier
Jul 2016
#8
This appears to be the case with the general public . With law enforcement even if they are not
Person 2713
Jul 2016
#13
+1, both Zimmerman and Wilson placed themselves CLOSER to the thing they pointed out was..
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#15
When drunk kids beat on your door so hard that the glass shatters ...
JustABozoOnThisBus
Jul 2016
#42