Here's what can happen when people have the ability to protect themselves and their property:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/21/2228141/resident-shoots-would-be-thief.html
A thief who tried to steal a WaveRunner from a lawyer?s backyard was killed Saturday afternoon, Miami-Dade police said.
At 2:31 p.m., police received a call about a shooting at a Miami Shores home at the 9200 block of North Bayshore Drive.
The property belongs to attorney Jeffrey Davis and his wife Yasmin, according to Miami-Dade property records.
According to Detective Roy Rutland, a Miami-Dade police spokesman, an unidentified man entered the Davis? patio and made his way to the backyard, where he tried to lower a wave runner from its boatlift into the water.
Two people in the house, a woman and a teenage boy confronted the man. It appears he threatened them, Rutland said.
Either the woman or the teenager shot the intruder; police were not sure Saturday. Detectives are questioning both people, he said.
The case remains under investigation.
I am not advocating death for Wave Runner thieves, but if the thief had a weapon and threatened the residents when they confronted him, he learned the hard way there are consequences for your actions.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/21/2228141/resident-shoots-would-be-thief.html
A thief who tried to steal a WaveRunner from a lawyer?s backyard was killed Saturday afternoon, Miami-Dade police said.
At 2:31 p.m., police received a call about a shooting at a Miami Shores home at the 9200 block of North Bayshore Drive.
The property belongs to attorney Jeffrey Davis and his wife Yasmin, according to Miami-Dade property records.
According to Detective Roy Rutland, a Miami-Dade police spokesman, an unidentified man entered the Davis? patio and made his way to the backyard, where he tried to lower a wave runner from its boatlift into the water.
Two people in the house, a woman and a teenage boy confronted the man. It appears he threatened them, Rutland said.
Either the woman or the teenager shot the intruder; police were not sure Saturday. Detectives are questioning both people, he said.
The case remains under investigation.
I am not advocating death for Wave Runner thieves, but if the thief had a weapon and threatened the residents when they confronted him, he learned the hard way there are consequences for your actions.