BiggerPockets

Here's an interview with a landlord who was attacked by two men while cleaning an apartment. Very interesting article and a good reminder that we MUST be prepared to defend ourselves. Here's the link:

http://www.wlky.com/video/16509601/index.html

Here's how the media portrayed the incident. Notice the family members give the usual refrain that the criminal was such a nice boy and wouldn't do anything like this!!! GIVE ME A BREAK!

http://www.wlky.com/video/16497481/index.html

Mike

It's hard to deny when the punk is laying in the street full of holes and with a handgun laying beside him!

Mike

Welp,
hopefully word spreads and more people defend themselves with WEAPONS..

Kills Robbers DEAD.

Colt .45 Kills Robbers DEAD :mrgreen:

That's exactly what I carry - a Beretta 9000S, which has an 11 shot magazine with .40 cal S & W law enforcement rounds (frangible).

Mike

Lol - great minds think alike. I just ordered the Beretta PX4 .40 subcompact. Got tired of lugging the full size 92FS and/or 1911 around.

I find it ironic that people who consider themselves to be capitalists that subscribe to the Austrian school of economics view this landlord's actions as justified.

The Austrian principles state very clearly that robbery doesn't equal murder. I do realize that one of the robbers had a gun. However, if the landlord just let them take the **** and go on their way, all of this could have been avoided. I seriously doubt that there was anything that valuable inside this apartment.

The vast majority of the time, the robber is not going to utilize the weapon. It's simply a scare tactic designed to prevent the victim from resisting.

There was no murder involved. And, its armed robbery, not simple robbery. Self defense vs. armed robbery, not murder vs. simple robbery.

"The vast majority of the time, the robber is not going to utilize the weapon"

lol, who wants to volunteer their lives and their family's lives to the chance of living or dieing. who knows if the robbers are on drugs or how they were acting.

Every innocent person dead to a criminal is 1 too many.

This was not a murder - it was a double suicide!! These low-life scumbags made a conscious decision to steal that gun and another conscious decision to commit a violent armed robbery. At that point, they forfeited their right to life and they got EXACTLY what they deserved. This world is a far better place without them. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

The real shame in this country is that more people don't exercise their 2nd amendment right to defend themselves by carrying a gun. When states enact concealed carry and other pro-gun laws, violent crime decreases, because the scumbags don't know who is armed and who is not. YOU are responsible for your own safety. The job of the police is to investigate crimes and arrest suspects. Their job is not to defend or protect the public and they in fact do not do that.

The scumbags in this case could have easily killed this landlord. They might have done it as a gang initiation; to get rid of the witness; because they were high on drugs; or for a thrill. If caught, they would have done a few years in prison, which is where they were headed anyway. No big deal for them, yet the landlord and his wife would have been dead and his family would have suffered.

In my opinion, all law abiding citizens should carry a gun. That is especially true of landlords, as landlords make a lot of enemies over the years (yes, even if you have nicer SFH rentals).

Mike