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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (91220)10/21/2008 7:25:28 PM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (2) of 541248
 
I don't know. Keep the door closed and call the police, probably.
But it's rare enough (outside criminal circles) that I only know of one similar case in the entire country in the last 3 years , although IIRC the victim was actually shot outside and staggered home. I'll let you google any cases of an ordinary house in the UK being assaulted by armed robbers if you wish to waste the time. (Crack dens don't really count IMO).
When I have visited the US I haven't noticed people answering the door with a loaded gun ready just in case, is that recommended as house-to-house armed robbery is clearly so common? Do you even feel safe on the streets, knowing that any other person might be armed and shoot you at any moment?

But leaving the futile red herrings to rot elsewhere, my point again.
If you try and coerce someone with the threat of force, they refuse, and you then use force, you - not they - are the one responsible for that force having been used.
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