Reply #82: False choice.

[mondo joe]

If it were a choice between my life and my property, or my life and being raped, obviously I'sd pick my life.

But that's not the choice. There's no reason to think when someone enters your home with a gun that you're safe, or likely to come out of it alive.

A work acquaintance lost her husband last year to the teenage burglars in their house who murdered him. Is he better off for not having shot them first? Is she? I don't think so.

"why are employees encouraged to give over anything someone with a gun asks for ?" Because store theft almost universally about a quick hit for cash, and the company doesn't want the liability associated with its employees shooting people.

That's not the story with home invasion.