Because if you go to "confront" car theives, that is a real possibility. Man shot outside own home in Cordova, SCSO says | Fox13 Memphis
Cops were called to home, because the homeowner had been shot.
Though the sheriff's office did not release a motive, a source close to the investigation and neighbors told FOX13 that the man might have been shot while confronting people trying to steal a car outside his home.
His wounds are not life threatening, and he is expected to survive, but that is mostly a bit of luck, than anything he did.
FOX13 previously reported on people being shot while confronting people suspecting of car theft. Last week, a father was shot outside his Orange Mound home after he confronted two men trying to steal his daughter's Kia Forte.
So, how much is your car worth?
So, how much is your car worth? and its counterpart, "stuff can be replaced" are often cited when someone acts in defense of property.
ReplyDeleteI think it's important to remember that for some people, a car is the difference between working and welfare, eating and not eating. I'm not saying that was the case here, but that was definitely the case in a previous incident where a guy stopped people from stealing his car at a Redbox kiosk.
Cars, stuff, anything you own is really a part of your life turned into something durable outside yourself. Since you only have the one life, every thing taken from it wastes the effort you spent getting the thing. I'm saying it inelegantly, but your labor gets turned into money and stuff. That money and stuff carries forward. If you have to replace it, then you have to use your CURRENT life and labor to do so, which reduces what you have available to meet your current needs.
Stealing your stuff really does steal a part of your life, that you can't get back. I don't like it when people too easily dismiss that aspect of it.
Sure, MY life isn't worth the contents of my wallet TO ME, but the attacker thinks BOTH our lives are worth less than that. The amount he can steal in a potentially deadly encounter is EXACTLY how much he values his own life, and mine.
It's great to be comfortable and in a place where losing a couple thousand dollars won't change my life, but for the other 90% of people out there, that IS worth fighting for.
For a certain percentage, $20 is worth your life... and you don't know ahead of time which are which.
I'm not saying that "don't be there" isn't the best way to avoid risking your life, I'm saying that it may not be as cut and dried as it appears, once you look a bit deeper.
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I get that, but most of the stories I feature on this topic are from upper middle class neighborhoods, and the homeowners going out to "confront" the bad guys are only prepared to "speak harshly" to the bad guys.
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