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http://www.providr.com/teens-killed-robbing-house/?utm_source=Awwww&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=providr
Three teenagers, ages 18, 17, and 16 respectively broke into someone's home to rob them. After discovering them in the act and 'exchanging words,' the home-owner gunned all three boys down. Thoughts? 
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It's a risk of the trade. The boys didn't need to die, and it's easy to critique the guy for shooting them, but then those guys also didn't have any reason to be in there, so that's their own fault.

If you grow up in a place where burglars (especially those that are armed) can legally get shot, you should know that that is the case. If you still decide to enter someone elses house, that must mean you accept that risk. It just so happened in this case that the risk occurred. Yeah, he probably didn't have to shoot all three, but he did. It's easy to say it's excessive from a distance but if that were your home and your son that made that decision when he was threatened by 3 strangers in his house, I think you'd say it was not excessive at all. 

I'd probably have shot all of them too, just because 1v3, it's real easy to rush someone and get rid of the gun all together. In those situations, you're better off safe than sorry, and if that means shooting all three, then that means shooting all three. It's hard to feel sorry for those three kids or their family. If anything I feel sorry for that guy that shot them. He's probably got a lot of baggage to deal with now too.