Intruder Fatally Shot By Coos County Homeowner

[GreenStormCloud]

http://www.kptv.com/news/27483698/detail.html

Intruder Fatally Shot By Coos County Homeowner

Police Say Dead Man Has Extensive Criminal History

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Police say Saunders tried to bust his way into a home on Shinglehouse Slough Road, near Coos Bay.

The couple inside called 911 and police say the husband then grabbed a gun.

The husband fired a few warning shots to scare Saunders away, police say, but eventually shot him in the chest once he got into the home.

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The prosecutor’s office says it is likely the homeowner will not face charges.

The homeowner even tried warning shots and the home invader just would not take the hint. Darwin Award winner?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Bound to happen sometime.

[Taverner]

2. Justifiable Homocide if you ask me

He tried to not kill him - but the guy was, quite effectively, asking for it

[Upton]

3. Excellent..

one less criminal for law abiding citizens to worry about. If the antis had their way, the homeowner and his wife could very well be dead..

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. Bravo!

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Ah, you do realize the 'clapping' clip there, from Citizen Kane was

Kane leading the applause for a very undeserving actress he was married to, an nobody else applauded until he did because he was a rich mutherfucker, don't you?

WooHoo! Let's applaude someone who doesn't deserve it!!

(Better off finding the 'slow clap' from 'Better Off Dead')

[eqfan592]

12. In his defense...

...that particular gif is pretty regularly used outside of the original context of the movie it is taken from. It's something of an internet meme these days.

Honestly, I kinda like it. :P

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. Yah, I realize that - I just love that movie so much that i can't put out

of my mind his stolid, determinded applause for a performance that did not objectively deserve it. In this context it was kind of jarring.

[petronius]

15. Thanks! I've never seen the movie, and I was wondering where that was from

DU never fails to enlighten... :)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

20. Yes, I do.

It's sarcastic.

[Euromutt]

22. Not unlike the "you can't falsely shout 'fire' in a crowded theater" line

People like to wheel that one out as an illustration that constitutional rights--including the RKBA--are subject to limitations (namely if their exercise endangers others), but what those people don't realize is that Oliver Wendell Holmes coined that line in an opinion he wrote for the Court in Schenck v. United States, in which the Court ruled (unanimously!) that it did not infringe on Schenck's freedom of speech to prosecute and imprison him under the Espionage Act of 1917 for advocating opposition to the draft during wartime.

[sharesunited]

5. In other gun news from Coos Bay:

http://theworldlink.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_5600dbfa-e161-546b-a0e7-75175c9494b6.html

[LibertyFox]

7. Not prosecuting a justified and arresting an unjust shooting

The system is working the way it should.

[Logical]

10. So how would you prevent that from happening? It is already against the law to....

shoot someone. Seems not to be working.

[oneshooter]

11. How are those talks going? You know the ones

to bring the Mexican and Canadian Army's into the States to confiscate all of our firearms?

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas

[MicaelS]

14. And looks like the husband tried a variation of your "warning" suggestion...

The husband fired a few warning shots to scare Saunders away, police say, but eventually shot him in the chest once he got into the home.

And "the warning" didn't work.

[petronius]

6. That's odd. I recall being told quite recently that home invaders were merely seeking

empty houses to rob, and could be scared away simply by shouting (no gun required, even). What could possibly explain this discrepancy between the real world and what I was told here? :shrug:

[friendly_iconoclast]

23. I'm glad you brought that up. I'm sure the person that claimed that would like it forgotten.

Unfortunately for them, we are "malevolently well informed" as a great DUer once said.

[DonP]

24. As opposed to the "Benevolently ignorant" gun control fans.

I like our side better.

[here_is_to_hope]

8. We live within

a mile of the house this happened at. My wife asked if we should start locking the doors. I told her no, there was most likely only one crook out there dumb enough to come into this area and try to pop a house, especially at night.
This neighborhood is all small horse properties, pick ups and gun racks abound.

[pipoman]

16. We live rurally where there are few crimes

and lock our doors all of the time. It is the simplest of security measures. Why tempt fate? Someone can be in your home before you can even open your eyes without this privacy barrier.

[here_is_to_hope]

17. My big fat dog says no one gets

on the place without a racket. The guy who shot the burglar was woken up by his dog too.
A dog, a big one, is the best first alert there is.
If a crook can get past his bark and bite, we have a few goats that are pretty mean when riled up.

[backwoodsbob]

21. big dog :)

love my buddy

[WatsonT]

18. Cheaper than a trial and two funerals

I'm glad everything worked out safely for the homeowners.

[spin]

19. The intruder must have had a Death by Homeowner wish ...

as a method of committing suicide.

Most sensible intruders will run if they see a firearm in an owner's hand let alone if he is firing warning shots.

In passing, I should mention that firing warning shots is a bad idea.