Third burglary today wasn't a charm for

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for these guys. On their third burglary for the day these two aholes were held at gunpoint by homeowners and turned over to police. It was the second and last time they broke into this house.
http://www.wtov9.com/news/19127539/detail.html

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1. Besides the obvious humor of the story

You have to laugh at the writer of the article felling it necessary to give the ages of the robbers, 23 and 33, especially for a 'robbery' in New Philadelphia. LOL

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2. What? Obvious humor I don't get it.

When I read the police arrest reports in the paper they always give their age.

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5. Heh,

The irony, and good story that the thieves got caught, then in a uncorrelated way, I found pattern matching that really has little value except that I found it funny.

Probably to obscure, but thought it was funny. After reading my post, it probably wasn't obvious, nor do I say it was the intent of the writer nor the meaning in the article, just that it was a thought that came to mind.

However I do not think crime and things like that are funny, it is serious, and the story goes further to the larger topic of guns in homes, however many times that does not work out well.

So the piece was first off an example of why people should own guns during a time when a current news story is being told about gun sales being up. Yet it does not address some of the larger issues of regulation of gun ownership, or keeping guns out of the hands of people that in their past have shown they can not handle that responsibility due to crime or other issues.

The story sparked thoughts on gun ownership, with a funny pattern matching.

My personal thoughts on the second amendment is that guns should be allowed(with common sense regulation), but the real meaning of the second amendment should be that people are given access to information storage and distribution systems, since that is the real weapon that is used in society, and if the spirit of the second amendment is protection from the state, it should include access to any systems used to monitor citizens, by monitoring the state in the same way.

So if wire taping is databased to be used against citizens, that same database of information should be available to citizens to defend against government. Which then jumps to organizations that advocate some secrecy, two of those organizations could be symbolized by 23, and 33.

23 being 2/3 that requires secrecy, and another organization that has some practices involving secrecy inside their group. Although I do not consider the groups the same.

Although many people in one of those organizations are probably mostly good people, I have previously commented on secrecy in organizations, and that was the correlation to my view of 2nd Amendment. (It should be noted, the secrecy of that one organization, as far as I have seen, is becoming less every year, and I have even seen where they are opening up and discarding some of those ideas.)

I guess thats my best explanation of my comment.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. Hey, the supreme court says that the police are not responsible

for our personel protection.

I guess that leaves us.

And our guns.

So be it.

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4. Now if the courts don't just let them off

Their Attorney will probably claim they just discovered someone had put all this stolen stuff in their car so they just stopped at the third house to use their phone to call the police. This kind of thing is getting too common, a guy last week ran into two burglars in his garage, thay beat the hell out of him.

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6. Great job for the home owners.

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7. It's good...

when nobody gets hurt and the scum bags get caught. Given the state of our justice system, I wouldn't be surprised if the robbers had to pay a fine or something. Maybe they'll get a stern lecture and see the error in their ways.