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they teach law enforcement personnel, professional gunmen, to shoot to kill when threatened and in fact empty their clip just to be sure. You would expect more from an armed citizen when their home has been invaded?
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Actually, just to touch on this point, I wouldn't expect nor want the same from a regular citizen that I would a law enforcement officer IE cop.
The reason I wouldn't want the same standards for cops and regular people is because then that gets across the idea that not only are cops
normal people they just tell 'shoot to kill' to and push them out on their way, but that also insinuates (roughly) that normal citizens are allowed to empty an entire clip on an intruder in their home, and think 'well, cops can do it'.
Like you said, maybe it's different laws where you are - but you're not allowed to murder another human being (here) unless your life is in jeopardy. And just because someone comes into your house, doesn't mean your life is in jeopardy. In very few cases, yeah - the guy breaking in will totally have a gun or maybe have the intention of raping you and your family. But in a lot of the cases it's just junkies or 'young people' just looking for free shit.
The major problem I have with this idea of yours, is the fact you
seem to
want to use it. Making mention that if someone steps into your house without permission you're allowed to blast them to pieces, without even looking at the fact if they have a gun or not, or if your life is even in danger so long as you say 'I have a gun'.
Because if a junkie walks into your house and wants to steal a TV to sell for some crack, and you blast him to pieces just because he's there, that my friend is murder. Not self defense.
And this isn't so much me harping on you, moreso the situation of people wanting guns. The cycle will never end. Guns beget more guns.
And Dylan made a good point, criminals
do understand risk vs. reward. Sure they have a highly inflated sense of ability, but if you have a
loud alarm system - loud enough to wake neighbours - no criminal will stick around.
That's why we arm our cars with loud alarms, and not under-panel flamethrowers that activate automatically when someone touches the handle or jimmies the lock.