>>>>>So the argument is that if someone breaks into your house and you shoot them then it is better to be sure of killing them in case they turn out to be unarmed and sue ?
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>>>>If someone breaks into your home do you really want to play 20 questions to find out his intent and what arms he has?
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>>>Yes. I'd rather ask questions first.
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>>You can be a statistic. That is your choice.
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>>>I've answered your question - you didn't answer mine.
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>>I'm not going to shoot to wound. That looks and works great on TV. In reality that means shoot and miss. I don't care if they are unarmed. It wasn't my stupidity that made them invade my home, and it's not my responsibility. I'd rather eliminate the evidence than play in court.
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>>That answer your question?
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>Only partially. So given three options
>(a) Don't shoot
>(b) Shoot to scare/ wound
>(c) Shoot to kill
>then you would always choose (c)?
>Also I wasn't aware that the penalty for stupidity is death.... :-}
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This is the one of the incredibly rare times that William and I agree on something.

I would liken it more to "You just rolled a natural 20 on your 'too stupid to breathe' check"

Let's take someone who thinks it is perfectly alright to drive 80mph in a driving rainstorm. They've always done ok before...except for that one time they roll that 20 and they die in an accident, hopefully without taking anyone else with them. Was it incredibly stupid to be doing 80 in a driving rainstorm? Oh hell yeah. So, would you say the penalty for that stupidity is death? That person chose to operate the vehicle like that under those conditions.

Similarly, someone chose to enter William's (or mine, for that matter) uninvited and with bad intentions. I will at least give them the warning noise of me racking a round in the chamber, then if the choose to remain in my house after that point they've just proven to the universe that they're too stupid to breathe. And yes, I will always take the 'c' option. If I pull it, I will shoot it. If I shoot it, I'm gonna kill it. May not always work out that way, but that would be my intention, yes.