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team asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 8 years ago

Why is a veteran being prosecuted for firing warning shots when a man was trying to break into his home?

"Thompson has been charged with unlawful use of a weapon and menacing and reckless endangering and had his rifle confiscated." He fire into the ground.

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/05/30/military-ve...

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I don't understand how any self-respecting person can feel good about prosecuting this man for firing warning shots

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Our country has too many liberals. They always protect the criminal, and demonize the victim.

  • justa
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Because he broke the law there, if the man had been in the home, it would have been no problem, but you can't shoot someone who is outside the home.

    His being a vet has nothing good to do with it, if he wants a defense that because he was in a war he wants to shoot anytime he feels threatened, that's just not going to fly.

    Odds are though that they aren't going to strongly prosecute him, there may be a fine for firing a weapon in an inhabited area or some such minor thing.

  • L.T.M.
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    So the idiots say the scumbag "was not acting aggressively" when he tried to break in the man's house? Bullchit. The veteran did nothing wrong and in fact showed restraint.

  • 8 years ago

    There was obviously no threat, it there had been, he would have shot the burglar. He should have given a warning SHOUT, then shot the intruder if he continued to enter

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Because warning shots are just to show off

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    The Left coast!

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    He should have let him break in, and then, put a bullet in his head.

    End of story.

  • pdooma
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Lesson: Don't listen to Joe Biden.

  • 8 years ago

    Part of 0bama's plan to dis-arm the Nation

    Gun by Gun

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I'm crossing my fingers that the guy turns the gun on himself.

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