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krehn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Karl Rehn) wrote:

>>for blowing him away.  On the other hand, if they're coming in your window with
>>the intent to steal your VCR and don't have T-shirts on that say "I'm unarmed,
>>only here for the VCR" so that their intent is ambiguous, you're probably scared
>>and have the right to act as if your life is in danger.
>
>Here's a game we play on the tactics list from time to time.  I'll
>set up the scenario, and others are welcome to follow up with what they
>would do.  Whatever you choose to do, you need explain WHY you did what
>you did, just as you'll have to explain to the cops, the courts, the newspapers,
>etc.  
>
>Let's say you hear a noise in the
>TV room, and you have to leave the safe room to check on the kids.
>As you are moving down the hall (do you use the flashlight and give your
>position away or try to move in darkness?) the bad guy, carrying your VCR,
>enters the hall through another door a 10 feet away.  You see each other
>at the same time.  You have a gun in your hand, he's got the VCR in his.
>
>GO!

I'd most likely do what I've done in several other occasions where
LEGALLY I could have shot the offender but didn't.  What have I done?
Twice shot out a tire on a fleeing car a point blank range; once held my
fire in traffic because of the likelihood of someone innocent being
injured if I missed or even if I hit the bad guy.  I had one fool bring
a knife to a gunfight and he decided to go elsewhere... 

The SAPD have never filed charges or taken my handgun.  They have asked
why I didn't shoot the perp-  Once was because they were fleeing and I
suspected they were juvenilles-and it turned out they were.

I understand the law gives you a defense to prosecution for using deadly
force to protect property - I will use it if need be to protect my or my
family but tools, TVs and VCRs are secondary to the BS a vindictive DA
can put you through.  

My self-defense arsenal consists of a handgun, Spydico Enduro, OC and a
cell phone.  I've had to display/brandish several times; used the OC on
3 dogs and have the phone for the next case of road rage I'm subjected
to.


Sam A. Kersh
NRA Life Member
TSRA Life Member
L.E.A.A., JPFO
http://www.flash.net/~csmkersh
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        "Among other evils which being unarmed brings
        you, it causes you to be despised."

        The Prince
        Niccolo Machivelli