ORIGINAL: StrutNtom
Ok fellas this thread has gone long enough w/o someone asking... Are you crazy?
Shotgun man...
If you shoot at someone for the reasons you described. You will go to prison. If you shoot someone and kill them with handloaded or "altered" rounds, you will go to jail and probably get more time. Look it up. Theres a documented count case that went all the way to the supreme court where a guy shot and killed someone breaking into his house, but b/c he used "hot" handloaded rounds he was sentenced to prison.
Also....DropTine...I wanna thank you for your service time for our country. I also want to remind you that you are not at war anymore. you are on civilian turf now. In the situation that you described, you would have probably went to prison also. Number one...you had an "escape" route. Youdidn't have to go outside, you even stated that the guy stayed in hiscar. You could have secured yourself and family in the house and called the cops. Number two, the defense would argue that you are a highly trained "killer".
I am not a lawyer, but I do work with the Federal Bureau of Prisons so theres no case I haven't "heard". This is 2007 fellas, not the 1800s.
I agree with this statement 100%. Taking of a HUMAN life or doing something that can possibly result in the taking of a HUMAN life over such things is just crazy talk. What ever happened to just beating the crap out of someone to set them straight, or calling the cops, thats what they get paid for.