Man Shoots Pregnant Woman Who Robbed His House

[ucbalumnus]

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@awcntdb

I am not at all comfortable deciding how others should choose to lawfully defend themselves and what type of assault they should be expected to endure, irrespective of what the criminals do. I just do not get the come hit me, and I will purposely defend myself less approach to personal safety. I view the choice of lawful self-defense as a personal issue, not to be decided by others.

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<p>However, the law has to draw the line somewhere between lawful self defense and vigilante retaliation. Different states have drawn the line in different places, although this particular incident probably crosses at least into a gray area in even the states with more lenient laws on lawful self defense. (And that does not really have to do with whether any guns are involved – if a weapon other than a gun were used, this particular legal issue would be the same.)</p>