by exporting jobs with cheapest-labor agreements (aka "free-trade" agreements) and under-funding needed police services in this country while happily funding endless wars in the Middle-East.

These self-defense shootings are, of course, not the first of such types of shootings. But they may be among the first of a trend of such shootings. We're going to see more of them.

Although there are some persons who identify themselves as liberal and apply an anti-gun mentality test when judging whether others are liberal or not, and although many military members self-identify with those who all themselves "conservatives," self-defense is not a liberal versus conservative issue. The great majority of Marines that I've known have been apolitical while upholding traditional American values which many would consider to be liberal. It's too bad that the politicans and their high-income benefactors have created so many low-income, high-crime areas. When police services are inadeqate in such areas, more intruders are going to get shot.

Most criminals have been arrested multiple times. I posted a thread about a burglar who had 37 prior arrests when he was shot in a burglary. The system is too lenient with criminals. More police would simply result in more catch-and-release arrests with no real impact on crime.

Tthat's really the moral of the story here.
Forcing your way into an an occupied house is likely to result in high velocity lead poisoning.

Sorry, gun-control advocates. Reality just keeps on presenting inconvenient truths opposing your arguments.

I always proceed under the assumption that they are newly arrived Terminators.

From the same article you linked: "Darling then punched the screen out of a window and jumped into the living room."

The Marine then shot him three times in the back with a .45, then tried to give him first aid.

If a naked guy, screaming and yelling, punches out the screen and climbs in a window of my house I will shoot also.

By leaving that out you made it appear that the Marine shot the guy outside his home.

Wasn't it a naked man, high on something, who shot Bruce Willis in the opening scene of the Sixth Sense? Life copying art or what??

http://www.amazon.com/The-Second-Amendment-1-ebook/dp/B007A53RX0/ref=zg_bs_157321011_5

Earns an automatic Rec.

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