Tennessee did a solid for the law-abiding and passed a bill making it legal to defend property with deadly force.
While it might only be stuff, it's MY stuff.
It's not a case of me valuing my stuff over someone's life. It's them not valuing their life over my stuff.
It wasn't that long ago we put the heads of thieves on pikes to warn others of the price of stealing.
That's extremely unsanitary, but it underscores that Western Civilization didn't always condemn the idea of defending hearth and home by any and all means at hand.
Perhaps if the police embraced Peelian principles more, it would not have come to this, but they appear to have reneged on the deal that they would handle thieves if we surrendered shooting them in the back when they were fleeing with our property.
Well, Officers, how many burglaries have you solved?
Does your state have a "good faith" clause that lets pawn shops out of being charged with dealing in stolen goods?
If the answer to that first question is, "not many," or, "a very small percentage of burglaries reported;" and the answer to the second question is, "yes." then it's time to let the honest citizen waste some criminals.
Remember, a dead criminal has a 0% recidivism rate. Also, liberal judges and district attorneys can't release a dead criminal to commit more crimes while they fail to appear for trial, no matter how much money George Soros spends on electing them!
Being able to legally shoot criminals is a solid win for society!
Wanna know a secret?
I doubt we're going to see more than a handful of criminals shot stealing from a home.
For the same reasons that conceal carry liberalization had a chilling effect on assault, rape and robbery.
Thieves don't want to get shot committing crimes.
In a lot of places, if you get burglarized or robbed, all the donut-eaters do is show up, take a report and tell you to talk to your insurance company.
ReplyDeleteThe cops being soft on crime is directly linked to the prosecutors and judges and city/county/state officials who have taken a soft on crime stance. Most cops wanted to arrest thieves, but were stopped from doing so. So the ones who were hard on crime left soft-on-crime areas or got out of the cop business completely.
ReplyDeleteEnact hard on crime laws and get actual 'hanging judges' and prosecutors who support the victims over the criminals and we'll see actual criminals getting arrested.
But, yes, the criminals not valuing their lives over our stuff is a good start.
Now make it illegal for the criminals' families to sue victims who are forced to take their criminals' lives. And don't make it illegal to set lethal traps that catch criminals and terminate them, or don't make it illegal to lie in wait to bang a thug in one's own home (there's a case out there where a homeowner was being robbed blind and so he set a trap and waited for whomever was stealing from him to enter his basement. So two 'children,' both drug users, left a Thanksgiving meal to steal from his house, he banged them, they died, he got charged and found guilty in what I think was a perfectly responsible killing as the cops were in a soft-on-crime area.)
My sister kept her boat in the side yard. There was a lock and chain on the trailer to a tree and a lock and chain on the outboard to a transom support. One rainy night someone cut the chain and took the motor. Insurance said it wasn't in the house or garage and she didn't have a special rider so they weren't responsible. Police came and filed a report but said there wasn't anything they could do. While out looking for a replacement she found her motor in the used section of a boat dealer. She still had paperwork with the serial number proving it. The dealer said she could buy her motor back for 3/4 the price of a new one. The police said the dealer bought it in good faith and he wasn't required to get an ID on sellers of used equipment. Even though she did their job for them in finding her stolen property they just said "tough luck".
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