The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

In a lifetime among cops since, I've noted that investigators who piece together the aftermaths of home invasion murders tend to keep their guns on all the time after that, even when off duty in their own house, and keep them by the bed when they go to sleep.They have learned from the helplessly-murdered dead

The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense.

Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone.