re: Family, Friends Of Dead Home Invaders Say “They Didn’t Deserve To Get Killed.”

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I disagree, it should absolutely be a capital offense, but the guy who killed these kids was a psycho scumbag and deserves the charge he got,

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If the cops had caught them you think they deserved the needle?

No, but at the same time in this situation, you never know when they are armed, or when they are a threat to your life.

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I wouldnt shoot to kill unless my life was in danger.

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By the time you are 100% certain, you'll be dead.

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The widow in the home had been burgled twice before, and the news article states that fingerprints from one of the deceased burglars was matched to one of the previous break-ins. They were killed as they terrorized an elderly woman, yet again.

It’s sad that these young men were predators. It’s sad that they grew up in a sub-culture that feels it is okay to steal from others.

It is very sad that his sisters have to bury their brother.

But all of that was very preventable. These young men made the conscious decision to become criminals. They made the conscious decision to endanger and terrorize the lives of law-abiding citizens by breaking into occupied dwellings.

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How many times should you allow your home to be broken into before you have the right to shoot the invaders? 2? 5? 15?

They have one chance to enter my house, with me in it, without getting shot. The only way they get a second chance is if I miss the first time.

Home invasions seem to be happening more and more often. Should the elderly widow just sit back and keep letting them take her shite? No. It sucks for everyone involved.

I hate that lives were lost, but don't prey on elderly women living alone and repeatedly break into their homes. This wasn't an unjustified shooting, in my opinion.

Someone comes into my house, and they're getting shot. That's all there is to it. I have a CC permit and my gun is always on me. You come in my house, you're getting shot. You try to rob me at a gas station, you're getting shot. If you try to rob me / break into my house, and I pull my gun fast enough, you're getting shot.

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If they'd been arrested they wouldn't have been killed. I mean, don't break in and you don't run that risk, but I have a hard time feeling upset at family and friends of dead minors.

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I'm not upset at the friends and family of the deceased. But, her house had been broken into twice before. At what point do you give up on the police "arresting" someone and defend your own shite? I may feel a little bad if their DNA didn't match DNA from previous break ins.

Again, prayers to all involved. No one, even the shooter, feels good in situations that end like this.

My parents are the same exact way.

My parents taught me and my brothers from a very young age that if you do shite like that, the consequences are on you.

Parents now are more concerned that someone else may correct their child. The whole "don't talk to my child like that" or I will come to the school, your house, etc is a big part of the problem now. I worked on high schools for years and I saw it every day.

When we were kids, everyone in the neighborhood had permission to whip our arse if we were bad.

Don't get me wrong, my parents would hate to have to bury one of my brothers, but they would not refuse to admit fault. They have a shotgun behind every door in their house. If someone breaks in their house, they will get lit up. They believe in defending your home, family, and property.

And I promise you that my .380 wouldn't do near the damage to an invader that my mom's double barrel 12 gauge would do. She wouldn't hesitate before using it.

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Justice can be administered many ways. And this is one way. The burglars chose their form of punishment.

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"Deserve" is a complicated word. The kid put lives at risk and played a very dangerous game. If anyone deserved to die it was certainly him because he was the one who created the situation. He deserved the consequences of however it played out. "Deserve to get killed" is unfair/emotional wording that makes no sense.

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If I'm the parent of one of those kids, then I'd be almost totally riddled with guilt for my failures as a parent. I say almost because a small part of me would be so angry at my child for making such a terrible choice and taking such a huge risk with his life.

I'd be apologizing to the home owners for my kid putting them in that terrible situation where they felt the need to defend themselves with deadly force.

That's just me. Not everyone takes responsibility seriously.

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If I were shot and killed during an attempted burglary, my dad would be on camera feeling guilty as hell, apologizing to the homeowner and repeating the words "I'm sorry, I raised him better than that. I can't understand why he did it." He'd still mourn me, miss me and love me. But he would in no form or fashion try to justify what I did.

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Home invasion shouldn't be a capital offense.

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Well, yeah, but if you make any human or animal feel threatened, then bad stuff is likely to happen. Therefore, you probably shouldn't go around doing that.

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heartbreakTiger

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And then we should process those poors into food for other poors.

Good to see you over here