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Originally Posted by frostfire
"Hurry up, man. Catch these guys, will ya? I ain't gonna let them go, I'm gonna be honest with ya," said Horn on the 911 call. "I'm not gonna let them go. I'm not gonna let them get away with this (expletive)."
"I'm gonna shoot, I'm gonna shoot," said Horn.
"Stay inside the house and don't go out there, OK?" responded the dispatcher. "It's not worth shooting someone over this."
"I don't want to, but if I go out there to see what the hell is going on, what choice do I have?" said Horn.
"(Expletive), they just stole something," said Horn to the dispatcher. "I'm sorry. I ain't gonna let them get away with this. They got a bag of something. I'm doing it."
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1. This guy should teach a class on what
not to say. He's an absolute idiot who sounds like he is just itching to go out and blast these guys. Dumb. Not once did he state or imply that he feared for his or his neighbor's safety, merely that "they stole something" and "he's not letting them get away with it." Nice. Dumbass.
2. I am a firm believer in the Second Amendment, and the Castle Doctrine. If you break into my home, I should be able to kill you. However, I do not support the idea that the Castle Doctrine should apply to other people's castles...not for a second.
Why? Well, it is pretty simple for me to know who is welcome in my home, and who is an intruder. After all, I am the one giving permission. It's pretty cut and dried. With a neighbors castle, there is just too much room for error.
Look, I have had to crawl through a window in my own home (long story), pick a lock after locking myself out, etc., and I have done these things at some pretty weird hours. I don't like the idea of my goofy assed neighbors thinking that they are justified in shooting me as I hang out a window, simply because it's 3am and too dark to recognize me.
Same goes for shooting my kid if he/she has snuck out (unknown to me) and is trying to sneak back in their window late at night. Let me decide whether or not they deserve to be shot. LOL
We get -tons- of false prowler/burglary in progress reports every night at work. Long story short, neighbors call saying tat some unknown dude is breaking into the house next door, or hauling out a TV, etc. We get there, and 99.9999999% of the time, it is a friend, moving company, or family member that the neighbor just doesn't know or recognize, and who has the homeowner's permission to be doing whatever it is they were doing.....
On one call, for example, a lady in the hospital had called her brother and asked him to go to her house, crawl in though the kitchen window, and get her keys and purse (she had been transported by ambulance, and didn't get this stuff). He complied, and the neighbors called on him. We snatched him up, and quickly figured out that there was no harm/no foul. There are tons of examples like this.
Imagine if, instead of calling, all of these nosey neighbors thought that they had the right to go out and shoot these "burglars."
I just don't think the average neighbor has access to enough info to make life and death decisions about who has a right to be on their neighbors property. Too much room for error.....way too much.