Yeah, of course mistakes can be made but sometimes you don't have enough time to ask questions. No one in their right mind won't hear a stranger sneaking through the house without preparing themselves with a weapon or fight, of course they should at least look at what their shooting for a split second before they do.
There is also such a grey area in murdering someone in your house I highly doubt it matters 99% of the time man, after all you paint a scene of a stranger coming in your home most of the time with some kind of weapon, ends up killed, and all you can trust is the story of the witnesses who could be lying or covering up the story in their favor for all you know while a investigation would be observed by incompetent, gung ho cops that will be on your side 100%. How in the hell would anyone know if you "asked questions" or if the intruder was threatening? As far as family members suing you or mourning over their relative thats all irrelevant and they are ignorant for not even thinking about being on the receiving end. They either mourn over their family member spending time in prison for murdering the occupants of the house who refused to take action and you know how the other way goes. Well, if the family who owned the house gets murdered could they sue the intruders family in that case? Being put in this situation is automatically a lose/lose for everyone..
@SouthernComfort I'm not missing his point, endangering neighbors and possibly mistaking a intruder for a family member/other occupant of home can happen but family comes first. What was his encrypted point I missed? Using uneccesary weapons? Don't see what else you could be talking about.
There is also such a grey area in murdering someone in your house I highly doubt it matters 99% of the time man, after all you paint a scene of a stranger coming in your home most of the time with some kind of weapon, ends up killed, and all you can trust is the story of the witnesses who could be lying or covering up the story in their favor for all you know while a investigation would be observed by incompetent, gung ho cops that will be on your side 100%. How in the hell would anyone know if you "asked questions" or if the intruder was threatening? As far as family members suing you or mourning over their relative thats all irrelevant and they are ignorant for not even thinking about being on the receiving end. They either mourn over their family member spending time in prison for murdering the occupants of the house who refused to take action and you know how the other way goes. Well, if the family who owned the house gets murdered could they sue the intruders family in that case? Being put in this situation is automatically a lose/lose for everyone..
@SouthernComfort I'm not missing his point, endangering neighbors and possibly mistaking a intruder for a family member/other occupant of home can happen but family comes first. What was his encrypted point I missed? Using uneccesary weapons? Don't see what else you could be talking about.
all i want to get across is if you plan to defend yourself with deadly force, know the self defense laws in your state as if your life depended on it, cause in some horrible situation / scenario, it would.
and think of how ridiculous it would be to shoot off an assault weapon in a residential area. not only that, but picture yourself sitting as the defendant in a court room, and the prosecutor pulls out this huge assault weapon, shocks the courtroom and says youre a cold blooded murdering menace to society psycho commando wanna-be. any citizen / juror / cop / lawyer / judge will look at that weapon, and see it as an offensive weapon, not the weapon of someone who wants to simply defend themselves. they might even falsely associate that weapon with a fully automatic machine gun.