Who owns guns and you carry?

[sorraia]

This is the attitude that scares me a bit.

I don't think anyone should have the right to protect property by the use of deadly force, EVER. It's stuff VS someone's life. That someone may be a criminal, but if your life is not in danger, and you see this guy walking away with some of your stuff, you should go to prison for a long, long time if you shoot him.

If you feel like your are in grave danger, then that is a different story.. but just property.. just materialistic stuff?

No. Way.

I get the impression that there are a few people in on this conversation who believe a person should be shot for stealing your stuff, period. Yes, you can say that if someone is in your home, you don't KNOW that your life isn't in danger, and that is absolutely true, you really don't know. But I don't think that's where she was going with her comment. I think she was talking about the attitude that someone deserves to die simply for being a criminal.

If you think it's ok to shoot someone over a tv, that's your opinion and you're not alone. Just don't hide that opinion under the guise that you'd shoot this person stealing your tv because you "can't be 100% positive your life isn't in danger."

PS- Those are general "you", not YOU, Pit on the Prowl.

I agree to an extent. The gray area comes in when that "property" is a living being. For example... someone breaking in to steal our snakes, or stealing livestock, etc. Animals are considered property by law, but they aren't a lifeless piece of plastic or metal that can easily be replaced, they are living breathing beings. I'm not sure I would want to shoot someone in the process of stealing an animal (I would be concerned about the animal being injured in the process), but I do think something more than just letting them walk should be allowed, legally speaking. I don't know what, but something.