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Originally Posted by Gravydoo II
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I'm not blood thirsty. Those are the rules. I would expect DEATH if I was caught breaking in someones house. Wouldnt you? The police are too slow as it is. If you were pumped on adrenaline running through an unfamiliar house in the darkness, trying to steal shit, a few minutes would feel like an eternity. Five minutes, in and out, thats it. Police wont be there in time. Its on me to protect loved ones and property. FL is pretty lenient, you could blow someone head off as soon as they open a window and break the plane of outside to inside. Around here, even when they get away, people know shit. They usually turn up dead when you rob someone with money connected to the good ole boy network in town. A cop was murdered here a long time ago and the guys that did it were found dead "murder suicide" the cops said. Not exactly a "book em dano" type area.
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It all depends. I’ve had two friends who have had someone break into their house in the middle of the night. In both completely separate situations, it was an unarmed drunk as fuck person: one believed he was at his friend’s house and was pissed his friend locked him out (he wasn’t at his friend’s house), and the other believed he was at his own house. If I can get a cop out to deal with that situation, rather than pulling my 9mm and yelling into the darkness “YOU KNOW THE RULES, MOTHERFUCKER!” And then spraying them with bullets and having to listen to whatever sucking noises a person makes who has multiple open chest wounds, I’d much rather the cop just deal with it
If it’s an actual home invasion with someone intent to kill me, then yeah you’re right, the cop isn’t going to get there in time. I’d STILL much rather the cop deal with it if they could get there in time, however. But even now, that’s not likely
But that’s just for home invasions, there’s a million other reasons it could be helpful to get a cop on the scene quickly that don’t require lethal force. I’m 6’0 220lbs 12% bf, not worried about taking someone in a fight. Does that mean I want to fight someone I know I could beat? Hell no, even if you win a fight, you can lose big time in court. So I’d rather call a cop to deal with someone trying to start a fight with me or someone I know in public, rather than deal with it myself
And mark my words, with how much anti-cop sentiment is going around, soon there is going to be a National cop shortage, not just in the cities like philly, Baltimore, New York, where there already is but everywhere. Crime rates are rising almost back to when it was at its worst in the 80’s and 90’s. People think us conservatives want the Wild West. I certainly don’t