"jim rozen" wrote in message
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In article , Ed Huntress says...

...It's the threat that keeps them from robbing.

Sometimes it's actually being *shot* that does that.

The idea being that if somebody is wandering around
in your house at night, and you can tell they don't
live there, sometimes under some circumstances (obviously
not all) a threat is counterproductive.

You don't show the gun, you don't announce your
intentions. You just shoot them. Robbery over.

I didn't say "brandish." But what you're suggesting isn't much of a
deterrent. They're too dead to be deterred, like Justice Thomas's
Constitution.

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Ed Huntress