🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <greg.n.smith.139.000F249E@daytonoh.ncr.com>
 greg.n.smith@daytonoh.ncr.com (Greg Smith) writes:
>All you should do if the burglar is unarmed is detain him.  If
>"detention" involves some negative feedback such as assorted broken
>bones and facial injuries, so be it. If it's too late and you already
>shot the guy, it would be good if you had a sterile throw-down weapon
>to put in his hand.

Greg, when giving people advice that could send them to jail for a
very long time, could you at least do them the courtesy of adding a
disclaimer to let them know that this is your opinion and is not based
on a firm knowledge of self-defense law?

  If you lie to the police in a self-defense shooting, you have lost
your right to claim self-defense.  By faking evidence, you have
proclaimed yourself a criminal, and modern ballistics will verify this
(fer chrissakes, a "sterile throw-down gun"?!?  what a great way to
send yourself to prison!).  I recommend laying off the TV movies and
consulting someone with real experience in this area.  The two books I
posted about earlier, written by a police officer who has served as an
expert witness in numerous armed self-defense cases, will wake you up
fast.

>I don't condone unjustified shootings but hey, nobody forced the guy to break 
>into your house.

And, hey, no one forced you to perjure yourself, either.


			"In a single movement -- too fast for the
			 naked eye to follow -- I spin, grab my scope,
			 drop my gun on my foot, cry out in pain, pick
			 up my gun, drop my scope on my *other* foot,
			 pick up my scope, and raise it to my eyes.
			 The sight I see comes as a shock.
			"Mere moments later, I realize my mistake and
			 turn the scope around."
-- 
J Greely (72604.3164@compuserve.com, jgreely@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu)