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In reply to the discussion: Already, another Trayvon Martin incident has just happened [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)2 AM
Dark. Someone is lurking around in my yard. I can't see the person's face, and...more importantly...I don't know what is in that person's mind.
A person could only intend to rob a garage, but, finding nothing of value, get pissed off or desperate and decide to break into the home.
Where he may just take what he wants, leaving quickly...
or, becoming afraid when the homeowner(s) can identify him, decide to kill his witness(es).
You ever (again) see one of those police shows where someone is stopped for a traffic ticket and the person takes off, initiating a police pursuit, crashing into parked cars, being pulled over and assaulting the arresting officer? All because he was maybe driving without his license or something equally minor. Now he's very stupidly compounded his problem.
You can't ever just assume that someone rooting around in your yard is NOT going to do the unexpected.
I'm not saying it's OK to shoot them without reason (i.e. fear of bodily harm).
But it's just incredibly naive (not to mention dangerous) to assume that people won't do something you don't expect.