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Not everything dangerous has to be shot on sight.

That's not being naive, it's being reasonable.

Do you lock your doors and windows? In what scenario does someone who has bypassed your domicile's security at night have anything other than malicious intentions?

His point that you keep missing is that malicious intentions doesn't equal death.

Someone wanting to steal from you doesn't mean the death penalty. Stealing is malicious.

And you are willing to gamble the lives of yourself and your loved ones on the assumption that the intruders' only intentions are theft? Why? To protect the intruders' physical wellbeing?

yeah...

I dislike the term 'bleeding heart liberal', but I think it applies here. There's a difference between 'love thy fellow man' and 'worry about the health of an intruder in your home at 3am'.

If it is in my home then, yes, it will be shot on sight.

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