It’s not like OP saw it anyway…

Interaction with you is worth less than the cost of a downvote.

This comment makes me so happy, I do the dance of joy.

Not s’bad.

They’re making a stretch of a reference to the Cornetto trilogy, three Edgar Wright films featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

English is so inconsistent at this point.

At this point? At this very point, specifically due to the historically valid usage of one gender neutral pronoun? Now is the time that it’s finally become an inconsistent language? Singular “they” is the thing that has pushed English over the edge from logical and sensical to arbitrary and confusing? Of all the foibles and quirks, this is the one that is simply unforgivable and must be changed?

Devil’s advocate: becoming an oncologist takes far longer than joining the police force.

Is this Cassidy McCree?

It only looks like leap after leap to you because it doesn’t agree with your basic premise.

On the absolute surface level, you make what seems to be a good point. I don’t think that point holds up to scrutiny, though, and such lazy (no offense meant by this; I’m not calling you lazy, only the point you’ve made) reasoning is not far removed from using “think of the chldren!” to justify an agenda.

Any dwelling that is not yours is generally assumed to be off-limits absent an invitation to enter. Ignoring that and breaking into said dwelling is implicitly a statement that you are disregarding the safety and security of the inhabitants. That further implies that you equally have no regard for the health and well-being of the inhabitants, as your actions are putting your needs or desires ahead of theirs. You have, wittingly or not, made yourself a threat to the inhabitants of the dwelling.

Responding to an immediate, credible threat against one’s life with lethal force is quite rational.

I have no doubt that this will have detrimental long-term effects on the boy. I also have no doubt that the very experience of being present during a home invasion would have had similar long-term effects.

Tiger Daly

Thought I recognized your name, LARPer.

Aren’t you the sad sack who gets off thinking about killing your father-in-law and blowing up your local ISP?

Fucking gross, you ghoul.

I almost feel like I’m being contrarian by asking this, though it isn’t my intent: your alternatives sound great at first blush, but how do you intend that those alternatives are enforced? Does that lead into your estimated >1% of offenders?

Velveeta.

Is that supposed to be the strange insult?

Is anyone else bothered that there are two number ones and one number two represented?

I don’t think water hammer would apply because there’s no abrupt cutoff or change in direction of the flow.

Damn, did I touch a nerve?