I guess, but I rather be the guy who watches the Falcon fly off getting shot at Stormtroopers, and while all that is going on take out one trooper by himself from behind, steal his gear, and sell it to jawas.
There is right and there is wrong, religion is irrelevant. It is good to see that people can actually help one another but the reasons for the attack is stupid. I hope the prosecutors seek to place this as a hate crime for an extra years in prison. Those thugs deserve it.
And I say if they are breaking into my home they already have caused harm by violating my property. People don't break into places without the intention of doing harm of some sort on the owner, in either property theft/damage or physical assault.
They have no business to be breaking into my home, and I will protect my property. If that simple concept is beyond your understanding then that is your problem.
If they didn't intend to do harm then they wouldn't be breaking into my home in the first place so that whole hypothetical situation simply would not exist. If they have the intent of breaking into my home then they intend to do harm, thusly deserve what they get. The act of breaking and entering one's home IS harmful.
I hate cinematic PnP RPGs. I don't want to be a hero. I just want to play a character who is at the wrong place at the wrong time and has to some how survive. Now that is fun.
It doesn't work that way unless you suddenly become one of the nonexistent voices in my head. If these teenagers have no intention of harm then they wouldn't be breaking into my home. The fact they are doing so shows that they do indeed intend to cause harm.
And how do I know that these teenagers who are breaking into my property have no intention of harming me? I can't read minds, Pixie Stick. I don't know what their intentions are beyond breaking into my property where they do not belong. I expect the worse case scenerio in such situations and I act accordingly.
Why is it ridiculous? If someone is breaking into my home, do I not have the right to protect myself?
The SWAT team is solely responsible. They did not announce themselves before they entered. They acted on bad information without verifying its accuracy at that particular address.
If they are police officers then they need to announce themselves first.
If the are old friends then they know how I react to things and they would know better.
If they are teenaged kids who think breaking into someone's home to steal stuff or to harass then they will get what they deserve.
If someone is breaking into my home then they have only up to two objectives. To steal my stuff and/or do me bodily harm. In both those cases I will seek to use lethal force to deter such actions.