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Originally Posted by Mister X
There are many possible scenarios where someone could technically be an intruder in your home, but not be a threat. It could be a Police Officer, firefighter or paramedic who has the wrong address or was given wrong information. I've seen such things happen first hand. Maybe it's a autistic child who snuck out of their home or wandered off and is confused and breaks into your home for a harmless reason not truly understanding what they are doing. I remember reading about case were a little boy with autism snuck out of his house and broke into a McDonald's. He didn't understand that he had done something wrong.
If someone believes that identifying threats and making shoot or no-shoot decisions somehow puts them at risk, then they need professional instruction to understand tactics. Most of it is actually common sense, but sometimes people need to be taught. If their brain cannot process the relevant information quickly enough to make proper split-second decisions and they choose to default to simply shoot any intruder, perhaps they should consider not owning a firearm.
To fire indiscriminately upon an intruder without visual identification and positively determining they are indeed an actual threat is horribly irresponsible. I cringe to think such people own firearms.
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Police, firefighters or paramedics don't break into homes in the middle of the night where I live, and quite frankly I've never heard of it happening anyplace else either. They usually use some means of at least *trying* to notify the resident that they are there, and the purpose of their need for entry before making such an intrusion.
I have seen enough examples of people who had the "poor misguided teen" from down the street break in only to be scared away by the homeowners appearance with a firearm, and then return several days later because he knew where he could steal a gun for future use, and the drunk neighbor who broke into the wrong house - thinking it was his (my neighbors would have to be VERY LOST to make such a mistake). I am well aware of what could be a "reasonably realistic" scenario for someone being inside my home uninvited...and you have presented none of them. You define "threat" as you see fit for your household and I will do the same for mine. What you cringe at is of no concern to me.