So unfortunate that it wasn't a head shot, and the fact that the home owner is the one that will face the full wrath of the law.
Home owner shoots robber.
Home owner shoots robber.
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Home owner shoots robber
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hj2k_x
Honorary Master
Good that he fired a warning shot and that the shot wasn't fatal, legally speaking.
lion_fish
Expert Member
should have shot him in the head and taken the body to the dump...
hj2k_x
Honorary Master
It's the illegal guns that are behind a lot of the problems. Get rid of those and then we discuss the rest of them.
hj2k_x
Honorary Master
A brick thrown at you can do just as much damage as a bullet.
It would help if the robber was actually in the house and posing some kind of threat when the shot was fired..
supersunbird
Honorary Master
Kimosabe
Senior Member
The first warning shot should be the sound of your lung bursting as a .45 hollow point rips through your chest. That robber should be re thinking his life. He is luckly the home owners didn't just dump him in the middle of nowhere to bleed slowly to death. Which should have been done. Nothing like a slow 8 hour bleed to make you re-think your life.
Guns should be legal. Just because we cant get them doesn't mean the criminals out there wont. Rather be able to send lead his way once he starts shooting at you.
I doubt your liberal lip wristed ways will save you when that bastard kicks down your down, rapes your children and wife and shots them in the face.
Shoot back.
Guns should be legal. Just because we cant get them doesn't mean the criminals out there wont. Rather be able to send lead his way once he starts shooting at you.
I doubt your liberal lip wristed ways will save you when that bastard kicks down your down, rapes your children and wife and shots them in the face.
Shoot back.
HavocXphere
Honorary Master
I just don't get the robber's mindset. If someone is shooting at me then I run...I don't look for a brick to throw.
I reckon in SA the home-owner should be allowed to shot/kill intruders...not ideal from a philosophical point of view, but the unique SA situation makes such high and lofty ideals unrealistic imo.
I reckon in SA the home-owner should be allowed to shot/kill intruders...not ideal from a philosophical point of view, but the unique SA situation makes such high and lofty ideals unrealistic imo.
onebrickshort
Senior Member
So many varibles
Throwing a brick at someone could be construed as an assault with a deadly weapon especially after the homeowner fired a warning shot at a criminal who had committed a crime (breaking a window)
It will be interesting to see how the Prosecutor views this
Throwing a brick at someone could be construed as an assault with a deadly weapon especially after the homeowner fired a warning shot at a criminal who had committed a crime (breaking a window)
It will be interesting to see how the Prosecutor views this
onebrickshort
Senior Member
I reckon in SA the home-owner should be allowed to shot/kill intruders...QUOTE]
It used to be justification to shoot an intruder or someone committing a crime by first firing a warning shot.
However the law changed and now one can only shoot/return fire under very specific circumstances usually when you've been hitbecause by the time someone pulls a gun on you it's too late to draw.
sand_man
Honorary Master
Robbers should be illegal
onebrickshort
Senior Member
Robbers are illegal because intent to commit a crime is illegal. So what's a robber? someone with intent to commit a crime, or someone who has committed a robbery?
Peon
Expert Member
I think its better to shoot regardless and take the legal consequences afterwards than have your family harmed.
marine1
Honorary Master
Why on every post, you put something in bold?
Because he likes to emphasize the points he is trying to convey.