Alleged intruder shot to death in Cartersville

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ole plumber wrote:

Wonder if this will teach the son a lesson? If i saw my father robbing someones house and then blown out the door with a shotgun, I would change my ways.
Good thing about Obama making the U.S. citizen so worried is that Gun sales has been at an all time High, along with Concealed Carry license. Theifs may not realize it but the Public is losing there money to the banks, feds and taxes and WILL NOT put up with some drug head crook taking what they have worked hard for!
If you are in my house or on my property after midnight....Your a DEADMAN....Dead folks can't testify against you! Good going Paintlick folks! Now if folks on the West side of berea would unload on a few crooks the police could clean up the blood and go back to hanging out at the station. Or directing traffic.

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Moonshiner wrote:

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Yea...hope that works out well for you there Sparky. For your info you can only use deadly force if someone is in your house with a deadly weapon. Then it is legal. If they are out in your yard, even if they are trying to steal something...which would be pretty hard to prove if they don't get away with it..YOU will be convicted of misuse of deadly force and you will be going away for a VERY VERY long time. PLUS, the family can sue your ass off and end up with everything you own in a wrongful death suit. You are getting Kentucky law mixed up with Texas law. If this was Texas, it would be different. Oh, and if it's the banksters and the fed who are robbing you, why don't you rise up like the founding fathers would have done and shoot them instead?! Oh I forgot, you, and the rest of the gun slingers are deep down COWARDS. It's OK if someone steals $70,000 of your retirement just as long as they don't try and steal your lawnmower...which is OK, by the way, to take a life for.

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yep wrote:

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seems like you just want to attack gun owners. This man shot a guy for breaking and entering, but there was a good chance that the man could have beaten the home owner to death with the crow bar. Elderly people are killed all the time by intruders. And what was he supposed to do, when there were 2 more people with the intruder. Your outnumbered, you cant exactly put the three of them on citizens arrest. This was not a case of killing someone over a lawn mower. This man felt that for his safety he had to shoot, and the State Police agreed with him. It very easily could have been a different story. The three of them could have beaten him down, the only reason this home owner is alive is because of his shotgun. if he confronted them without it, he would have been the one dead. Dead people are terrible witnesses, and the criminals know that too. You know how many killings go unsolved in this area.

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Moonshiner wrote:

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I am a gun owner. In fact I own an AK 47 copy. However, I would not wait inside a house I own, that I did not live in, that was being remodeled, just to waste someone with the self defense excuse. The man set up, with premeditation, a trap/stake out to "justly" kill someone. It was not like he was laying in a warm bed, in the middle of the night, heard a disturbance and grabbed a gun to protect himself. That is justified. Setting up a stake out to kill someone trying to carry out a robbery on an unoccupied house, is not the same. You people supporting this had better think twice.. You all had better know the law before you start killing people for what you think is justified. The law might not agree with you and it will only affect the gun owning public as a whole.

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Moonshiner wrote:

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I am a gun owner. In fact I own an AK 47 copy. However, I would not wait inside a house I own, that I did not live in, that was being remodeled, just to waste someone with the self defense excuse. The man set up, with premeditation, a trap/stake out to "justly" kill someone. It was not like he was laying in a warm bed, in the middle of the night, heard a disturbance and grabbed a gun to protect himself. That is justified. Setting up a stake out to kill someone trying to carry out a robbery on an unoccupied house, is not the same. You people supporting this had better think twice.. You all had better know the law before you start killing people for what you think is justified. The law might not agree with you and it will only affect the gun owning public as a whole.

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Tinky Winky wrote:

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If the house belonged to the man, it doesn't matter what he was doing in it. Even if he was waiting for some lowlife to break in based on a tip, he had every right to shoot the guy that broke in. Plain and simple. If I knew some thieving piece of scum was planning on breaking into a house that I owned, I would do the same thing.

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ole plumber wrote:

lol--Must have the crooks skeered already--They are quoting law and talkin ak-47's. Bet you hold your tec 9 sideways when you shoot also moonshiner? I'm old enough, worked hard enough and no longer give a whoop about these hoods. They have roobed my building three times, stole THOUSNADS OF DOLLARS IN TOOLS AND COPPER. just to buy another pill...Sparky--lol I'm a plumber not an electrician? I'm just tired of having my stuff stole and the Police not really giving a hoot. Figure if the think about me shooting it up like the wild west, they may patrol the west side a little more--not a bad thing....Moonshiner--Do you really feel sorry for a crook?

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nonsense wrote:

I can tell you right now if someone comes to my house and tries to break in they will be shot. I never felt that way until I found out when you live in the country you can't get help fast enough when you call 911.

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KittenKiss wrote:

Ok LAW correction here people....
You can ONLY use deadly force when protecting your SELF OR OTHER'S lives, NOT PROPERTY. Texas does have the "Make My Day Law", in which you may use deadly force against anyone intruding upon your property, but as of yet, KY does not. As far as a crow bar being a deadly weapon, that's up to the County Attorney to prove the man had intent to harm another with it.

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I am a gun owner. In fact I own an AK 47 copy. However, I would not wait inside a house I own, that I did not live in, that was being remodeled, just to waste someone with the self defense excuse. The man set up, with premeditation, a trap/stake out to "justly" kill someone. It was not like he was laying in a warm bed, in the middle of the night, heard a disturbance and grabbed a gun to protect himself. That is justified. Setting up a stake out to kill someone trying to carry out a robbery on an unoccupied house, is not the same. You people supporting this had better think twice.. You all had better know the law before you start killing people for what you think is justified. The law might not agree with you and it will only affect the gun owning public as a whole.

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yep wrote:

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if the individual has a lengthy criminal background then yes a crow bar would be considered a deadly weapon.

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KittenKiss wrote:

Only if (big if) the criminal had a lengthy violent history....like armed robbery and hurt someone.
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