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<blockquote data-quote="71buickfreak" data-source="post: 2001441" data-attributes="member: 8373"><a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/26/15458995-minnesota-man-who-killed-teens-in-break-in-charged-with-murder" target="_blank">http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/26/15458995-minnesota-man-who-killed-teens-in-break-in-charged-with-murder</a>So these kids break into the guys house, which has been previously burglarized, and the guy shoots them as they come down the stairs into his basement, at which point, he gives them the ol&#039; coupe deVille, er I mean coup de gras. He runs his mouth saying he wanted them dead, hit them with a &quot;nice finishing shot&quot;, general deplorable stuff. Here is the thing- they were in his home illegally, he has the right to defend his home. I don&#039;t think a murder charge is warranted. Should he have &quot;finished them off&quot;? probably not, but if they hadn&#039;t broken in, they wouldn&#039;t be dead. For the record, I feel the same way about Ersland. We have seen people go to jail for firing warning shots, cops that shoot 9 bystanders, etc. You break into a house or business, you run the risk getting killed. These 2 kids did, don&#039;t punish the victim of the initial crime because he lost his wits during a home invasion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="71buickfreak, post: 2001441, member: 8373"] [url]http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/26/15458995-minnesota-man-who-killed-teens-in-break-in-charged-with-murder[/url] So these kids break into the guys house, which has been previously burglarized, and the guy shoots them as they come down the stairs into his basement, at which point, he gives them the ol' coupe deVille, er I mean coup de gras. He runs his mouth saying he wanted them dead, hit them with a "nice finishing shot", general deplorable stuff. Here is the thing- they were in his home illegally, he has the right to defend his home. I don't think a murder charge is warranted. Should he have "finished them off"? probably not, but if they hadn't broken in, they wouldn't be dead. For the record, I feel the same way about Ersland. We have seen people go to jail for firing warning shots, cops that shoot 9 bystanders, etc. You break into a house or business, you run the risk getting killed. These 2 kids did, don't punish the victim of the initial crime because he lost his wits during a home invasion. [/QUOTE]

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