Homeowner caught on tape "finishing off" teen burglars. Murder or self defense?

[MillennialDem]

73. Totally unreasonable: some thoughts

1. I believe one has the right to shoot, stab, club, or beat the piss out of an intruder. If someone is in your house, most likely they are up to no good (theft) and you can't be sure they won't use violence to get what they are after.

2. But once they are knocked out or disabled, you can't keep shooting. Even if it is your home. This sets big time bad precedent. The death penalty is bad enough in all cases (even murder), but now you're allowing citizens to be the judge, jury, and executioner? WTF?

3. I find the defendant's behavior before the shooting, while legal - quite sick. This guy went to elaborate lengths to make sure he shot the kids. This was NOT the case of a guy who got sick of too many break ins and bought a gun and just happened to shoot a repeat intruder. This is a guy who waited and went to elaborate planning to make sure he was going shoot the intruders. Moved his car. Waited with two guns. In a not so great to be spot. His basement reading a book? For hours on end?

Seems with all the time and effort he put into this plan he could have improvised some kind of trap so the kids would get stuck in the basement then he calls the cops. Keep the gun in case the kids break out. But no, he didn't want to just stop the burglaries, he wanted to kill the burglars no matter what.

4. I find those who defend this guy equally sick and it's disturbing so many are this country. They are one of two types (possible to be both). They also want all thieves to die no matter what. Of course, the cretins who espouse this view never put any thought into the number of "assumed, but not actually a thief" people will get killed in their holy war on all thieves. The other type are gun nuts who will defend a shoot - any shoot as long as it can in any stretch of logic (to near breaking it) can be considered self defense. It all goes to the "Obama's gunna take my guns!" so to them, this is about keeping their guns. No matter what. No matter how many people die because of that view. It's also about winning/scoring political points / imagined victories.

Sick. There are way too many sociopaths in the world.