Posted on 03/22/2013 8:23:38 PM PDT by virgil283
"Youre sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way. With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.
You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it. In the darkness, you make out two shadows.
One holds something that looks like a crowbar. When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.
The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.
As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know youre in trouble. In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless..
Yours was never registered.
Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.
They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.
When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.
What kind of sentence will I get? you ask.
Only ten-to-twelve years, he replies, as if thats nothing.
Behave yourself, and youll be out in seven.
The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper.
Somehow, youre portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys.
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Does anyone make a double barrel 12 gauge with a 40 round drum magazine?
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