FL: 82-year-old Daytona Beach homeowner kills masked man trying to break in

[X_Digger]

http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2012/january/368844/82-year-old-Daytona-Beach-homeowner-kills-masked-man-trying-to-break-in

[div class='excerpt']DAYTONA BEACH --

Police said an intruder was shot and killed after trying to break into a 82-year-old man's home early Thursday.

According to police, the homeowner, Charles Robbins, 82, awoke around 6 a.m. to find a man trying to enter his home, near Woodland Avenue and A1A.

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Police said they believe Orshoski was behind several recent burglaries in the same neighborhood.

"The homeowner did something the criminal justice system couldn't do with this guy," said Daytona Beach police Chief Mike Chitwood. "We're familiar with the burglar. He put him out of business."

Apparently this is the third dead home invader in the neighborhood.

[ileus]

1. The neighborhood that shoots together lives in peace together.

some people don't want the elderly to have access to firearms...

[applegrove]

2. Okay people. Time to fantasize about protecting your family. And then go out and buy more guns.

[PavePusher]

3. Fantasize? You do understand this was a real event , yes?

Otherwise....

[applegrove]

4. "Share the fantasy". That's what I'm saying. This is propaganda.

[Simo 1939_1940]

5. "This is propaganda."

So you feel the same way when a pro-restriction supporter posts a story about someone getting killed/injured by a negligent discharge, yes?

[applegrove]

6. And where do they do that? If they do it on the du they immediately get attacked

by an email tree of NRA types.

[Simo 1939_1940]

16. I'm an NRA "type" and I

donated the maximum legal amount to President Obama's campaign, and a few hundred to the Democratic Party.

How does that fit into your broad-brush view of the "gun culture"?

[Simo 1939_1940]

17. And of course you dodged the question. NT

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

13. "Share the fantasy"

Try California with that 'share the experience' thinking.

If your neighborhood has had 3 home invasions and you're not taking measures, you're just stupid.

[Union Scribe]

7. Isn't it just a tragedy when the innocent people win?

It might make the others think they can defend their families, too! The nerve!

[applegrove]

8. And will their be follow up posts where we talk about ptsd the people suffered for taking another

life, no matter how justified? I would not call being traumatized a "win". But you do. And that is the difference between us.

[GreenStormCloud]

9. Are you claiming the defender would have been better off to have been defenseless? N/T

[ileus]

10. No just morally superior for dying for the anti-cause.

[one-eyed fat man]

11. Choice of outcomes

You would prefer the burglar remained unharmed. I am sure he suffered from certain economic pressures that caused him to choose his line of work. You are, no doubt, convinced he was FORCED to be a criminal. It really wasn't his fault that a series of his choices led him to the point where a victim refused to cooperate.

This was NOT his first time. Let me remind you what the cops had to say:

"The homeowner did something the criminal justice system couldn't do with this guy," said Daytona Beach police Chief Mike Chitwood. "We're familiar with the burglar. He put him out of business."

While catch and release criminal justice might make you happy, I truly believe that one less burglar in society is a positive outcome. He got what he deserved.

[ileus]

12. Why would anyone much less an 82 yo care about removing a piece of human debris

from circulation....you're getting criminal confused with useful person.

I figure an 82yo has other concerns besides having to get worked up over shooting an attacker. If this affects the shooter in anyway it should be making him/her aware of how vulnerable they are.

Either way the good news here is the person firing in self defence still has the ability to contemplate their actions...they can worry about silly shit like having been forced to kill an attacker, or they can worry about taking their heart meds but at least they can still think about being.,

[PavePusher]

15. Being alive to suffer PTSD is a far more desireable situation than dead, or victimized with PTSD.

How you could possibly think/imply otherwise is an utter mystery.

[SteveW]

20. You have presented a false equivalency...

the negatives from NOT shooting in self-defense (with consequences of death and injury) compared with possible negative PTSD symptoms as a result of shooting in self-defense.

Given the choice, I'll get up earlier than any iPhone addict and get at the head of the line for the latter.

[aikoaiko]

18. Is it so difficult for you to accept that some people really do use firearms to protect themselves?

And really who cares how many firearms people own as long as they keep and bear them responsibly?

[SteveW]

19. Gandhi didn't "fantasize about protecting...family." He said it was one's duty. nt

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

14. Probably a friend...

...in a Lone Ranger costume who had left behind his keys to his trust horse, Silver.

[SteveW]

21. "trust horse Silver" sounds like a commodities mutual! nt