Greater Cesnica wrote:Thank you Farn! There is another thing which might be questionable:
viewtopic.php?p=38389646#p38389646These parts are flamebaiting and getting into trolling:
A-Series-Of-Tubes wrote:Today it's an elk. Tomorrow ... when you have lovingly cleaned it and stored it in a concealed cabinet above your bed ... tomorrow you may shoot a homeless person whose nest-making in your shrubbery, you mistook for a home-invader setting up a machine-gun nest.
A-Series-Of-Tubes wrote:Gun culture is a heritage of dying patriarchal culture. Abandon the culture, you might as well be dead. All good men must kill someone, and if the sissy trannie feministy culture gets you in its clutches, then do the only honorable thing: shoot yourself in the head.
I can see how you took offense at the second passage. I'm sorry for that.
The first one though, follows from the idea that when you own a useful thing and become accomplished with it, you want to use it in every way it's good for. For me it's my belt sander. An electric drill gets used more often, but I don't keep finding new uses for it, like with my beloved belt sander.
Hopefully you've never shot a person (homeless or not). I was speculating about illegally shooting someone whose behaviour seemed suspicious at the time, but not taking the time to learn your local laws about castle doctrine. We're talking US states here of course: NSW has very limited castle doctrine.
Don't shoot someone behaving suspiciously ON your property, unless they're already (at least partly) inside your house. Maybe your laws allow that, but you should be sure BEFORE the situation arises. Another thing that varies from place to place is whether messing around with a lock on your door makes the person legal to shoot at (from inside the house) and you should check precedents not just the letter of the law.
My point was that if you think castle doctrine protects you when actually it doesn't, and you mistake a homeless person for a 'home invader', you could be led
by your own competence with guns to unwittingly commit a serious felony and go to prison.