is a myth

The home owner should be in jail for defending his home and family from 2 armed criminals?

In what F'ing alternative universe, that you obviously reside in, is that a crime?

Put the other 2 in jail.

some people don't like non-compliant victims- Paul Quander, David Hemenway, Michael Bloomberg... others

a coterie of armed mercenaries to guard his precious well-being.

Us proles on the other hand do not deserve such privileges. We're too icky and unruly.

for you, why won't you answer? No need to feel embarrassed, just state your position and debate it.... or should we just listen to the crickets??

Peace,

Ghost

That one and a couple of others, will come into a thread, excrete a disgusting comment and then run away and not respond to any posts.

Why gun owners are so cruel and hateful to the under privileged is beyond me.

You should be ashamed and embarrassed to say that the homeowner belongs in jail.

Loud and clearly by the silence of its proponents to this comment.

I can confidently say that had a "gun culture" poster said "the home owner should have killed both of them" there would be many refutations of such a statement.

Ahh, another 'reasonable' gun control proponent.

Pay close attention, folks, to all the gun control proponents disagreeing with our interlocutor here.

'Deeds not words'.

For trying to defend himself from other people who apparently sought to bind him up as well?

How's it feel to keep social company with the home invaders? Feel good?

that scourge on college campuses everywhere what turns the erotic, over-wrought myth of the Succubus upon its head. In this modern-day nocturnal visit, the Fart Fairy steals himself into the bedroom of the unsuspecting victim (whose mind already careens under the gauzy haze of drink), and lets fly a pumble at close range, tee-hee-hees as the horrified recipient sputters into a more terrible full consciousness, then escapes, closing the door to more concentrate the leavings.

You are one seriously screwed up individual if this is anything other than flame bait.

Gunners are just wanting to shoot people, didn't he have a can or beans of something? There was no need to be rude to society...

If his firearms had been locked up at the armory like they were supposed to be this would never have happened.

Where a few years ago two men broke into someone's home, bound the entire family and then murdered the family, prompting Connecticut to reconsider its death penalty ban? Sometimes having a firearm for home protection doesn't help, but sometimes, in an instance like this, it does.

I too am curious to know what you think the homeowner did wrong, other than shoot a felon who was breaking into his home.

At least the burglars weren't shot, right?

should have been disarmed by force of law?

that seems to be normal

Or is cut/paste your means of communication?

Sounds like the burglars had prior knowledge of something of value in the house, to drive two hours to get there. Drug-related? The stories mention the homeowner has a business but not what kind.

I would note that even in anti-gun Connecticut, the homeowner had a legal gun permit (non-felon), his wife and child were in the hose, there is video surveillance, and he was not arrested or detained.

If there was any evidence of a criminal enterprise in the home or if the homeowners gun was not legal, at the very least, the homeowners would have been detained for questioning.

It might very well be a targeted crime, but the reasons may be personal or due to knowledge of legal valuables, rather than related to drugs or crime in any way.