The homeowner who fatally shot a 20-year-old University of South Carolina student who tried to enter the wrong home on the street he lived on Saturday morning will not face charges because the incident was deemed “a justifiable homicide” under state law, Columbia police announced Wednesday.
Police said the identity of the homeowner who fired the gunshot that killed Nicholas Donofrio shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday will not be released because the police department and the Fifth Circuit Solicitor’s Office determined his actions were justified under the state’s controversial “castle doctrine” law, which holds that people can act in self-defense towards “intruders and attackers without fear of prosecution or civil action for acting in defense of themselves and others.”
Just for curiosity’s sake, if it was the middle of the night and someone started pounding on your front door and yelling, then tried to kick your door in, then broke your window, reached in and started trying to unlock your door from the inside, what’s the civilized non-American response to that?
You engage them in conversion, explain to them simply they are at the wrong house, and keep pushing that point
Source: I had this situation happen to me at uni, explained to the side he had the wrong house, showed him the house number, and he calmly left.
Cool, cool. Now, what if the intruder isn’t a drunk college kid but someone looking to do you harm? You open the door, he pushes inside because he already knew that he wanted to do harm to the people inaide this house number, and then what?
Not everyone is a drunk kid.
Phone the police, and then shout back asking what he wanted.
What’s the average police response time in your area? Is it less than 30 seconds? Because that’s how long it would be until dude is physically in your home.
wow, you’re so afraid of people
Literally from the article:
Well, maybe they handle mental illness better where you are (seriously, I bet they do). But here, we let them walk around untill they kill someone. So that is who you are protecting yourself from. And there are a lot of them just waiting to snap.
my husband is mentally ill and you have no idea how offensive you are.
I like your implication, here, that all mentally ill people are the same
In response to the comment that says mentally ill people walk around until they kill someone
There are all sorts of mentally ill people. I am referring to the ones who get arrested for violence and released over and over… not all mentally ill people.
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You can bang on a reinforced steel door all you want until the police comes.
Did no one read the article?
He smashed the window and began undoing the lock from the inside
No one ever reads the article. What do we want, context?
I’m not gonna call it the world’s best home defense shooting, but I’m not gonna call it some kind of injustice.
There are no windows in a steel door.
Reading comprehension is hard
You dumb?
Don’t cry to me because you didn’t read the article lol
Ook lol. Thread following skills - 0.
Lmao don’t cry it’s not my fault you didn’t read the article