(10-11-2022, 03:34 AM)Finspiracy Wrote: I dunno, my opinion does not count. We do not have extreme weather conditions in Finland. Maybe some strong winds sometimes, and powers might be off for some people for a little while.
WTF is this "You loot, we shoot" policy? Or "Shoot first, ask questions later" God damn...
What if the person entering someones home is hungry and thirsty, without a shelter? Not there looking for valuable items to steal?
What if you Americans try to act based on heart for a while, and not your trigger finger?
There is food and water all over the place here, and it's a lot less dangerous to find your own than to try to take someone else's.
Still, if they don't know how to find their own tucker, then they need to knock on the door and ask, like humans do, rather than breaking in and taking, like criminals do. If they break in, then they just bought their own bullet.
Maybe Finnish home-breakers are really nice people who only occasionally break in to rob, rape, and steal, but American home-breakers are criminal bastards, and have to be dealt with. If they will break in, then they will also kill you. I have family to protect, and I have family to feed. if someone breaks in, they are a threat to my family's safety, and if they take food, they are taking food out of my family's mouths.
Either one will earn them a shallow grave in a really pretty, but out of the way, spot. Shallow, because I ain't spending a whole lot of time or effort to dig deep to bury a criminal. The coyotes can have the carcass for all I care.
It's not that I value my stuff more than I value their life, it's that THEY value my stuff more than they value their life. THEY make that choice, not me, when they decide to break in.
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