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Missouri man fatally shoots his mother at home after mistaking her for intruder
(www.theguardian.com)
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You're not listening. Stay the fuck out of peoples houses, you deserve everything you get, and it ain't the person lives there decided that, you did. "lawless shithole" sounds more like a place you can break n enter with near impunity.
We have a functional justice system where I live. Guilt and punishment is established in court in a fair trial, not by a random redneck with a gun. I know this must be a novel concept for you but I ensure you it is the civilized way to do it.
So, what you're saying is that you value a person's right to break into your home and do whatever they please far more than you value your person, your family and all of your property, because they might hypothetically be punished at some later date. I just hope if someone breaks into your home they're just looking for something to steal they can turn quick for drug money and not looking to do you and yours harm.
Your redneck with a gun scenario in the US is answered by the castle doctrine - the basic premise is that if someone is invading your home you hold the right to use deadly force to stop them. It's well known here, and it's not like you just accidentally do a home invasion. Stay out of other people's homes uninvited and it's not a problem.
If someone enters your home in a place operating under the castle doctrine, then they're making the decision that your worthless crap is worth risking their life over. It's not like people just accidentally a home invasion.
Crime in the US is weird. "Which country is safer" is a bad metric because most of the US is as safe or safer, but certain parts are extremely dangerous. Like there are individual neighborhoods in Chicago that have 17x as many homicides per year as the capitol city of my state and more homicides per year than my hometown has had total since the Civil War. Most of the other big urban metros have similar areas.
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