as an armed self-defender you must know
the difference between defending life
and protecting property
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couple is renovating their homes so
they're staying in the trailer that you
can see right here in their front yard
and they've had a lot of crime in the
neighborhood and this is uh some guys
who pull up in their vehicle and are
going to decide they want to steal their
truck which is parked right in front of
the trailer that again they're staying
in because they are renovating the
inside of their home so now these guys
are going to spend a minute outside you
can see them break into the truck or get
into it there with the windows down you
can note here that the windows are down
you can see all the way into them you
won't be able to in a moment the
homeowner hears that and he's actually
a part-time police officer so he has a
valid pistol permit in israel and he is
going to walk out here and you're going
to just watch him walk up and talk to
the guy who's then going to decide nope
i'm gonna roll the windows up and get
out of here and so our homeowner shoots
at him and hits him in the head shoots
it his partner in the car who he ran off
now then if you go read the news story
that i have linked in the description a
little bit of information that i have
is that this man was charged with murder
in this particular instance for this
incident there is an interesting law in
israel that does allow a homeowner on
their property to shoot a burglar
however the the prosecutor has ruled
this wasn't on their property this is
out in the front yard on a public street
so therefore it wasn't justified the man
is currently on trial and we're going to
think about lessons i feel like i say
this on the channel all the time that
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home is your castle for sure but let's
recognize that we're not talking about
these guys breaking into the trailer
we're not talking about a home invasion
here we are talking about a card theft
this is a grand theft for sure you know
an automobile is worth an awful lot
however we have to recognize here that
we use deadly force as a tool of last
resort to protect life and i really want
to emphasize here the outcomes are so
negative for the car owner here that if
he had to go back and do it all over he
would never have uh fired at this guy so
learn the lessons from that and let's
talk about why so he's asleep in his
home okay fine he's obviously out there
because he's renovating his house and
all that stuff and these guys are dead
wrong to come and steal his vehicle it's
morally reprehensible for them to do so
for sure it is also okay for him to try
and stop somebody from robbing him and
from stealing his vehicle so now these
guys come in and they take a moment to
get into his vehicle but i do want to
note as they are breaking into his car
that the windows are down on his vehicle
please hear me friends lock your car
make sure the windows are up
specifically and especially if you are
parked on a public thoroughfare now i
don't know why he doesn't have the truck
parked you know on the other side of the
gate that we can see there i don't know
those things lock your vehicle don't
leave valuables in your vehicle
certainly don't leave firearms in the
vehicle thankfully our homeowner here
did not do so uh and and didn't go that
stuff now you see somebody who is going
to jump into your car you know that
maybe your car is getting stolen here do
you have
the legal right to stop them from doing
so of course you do you have the right
to use physical force to stop somebody
from stealing property from you but
let's think about how smart it is here
in the moment to do that i think that it
was very unwise to go out of your
trailer and have a gunfight with an
unknown number of people of unknown
skill
for what amounts to the insurance claim
on your vehicle
so i know some people are gonna say yeah
but it's a morally right thing to do no
but it's stupid to do and the reason for
that is again if your car gets stolen at
worst you are looking at a an insurance
claim and paying your insurance
deductible on your property so whether
that's 250 500 a thousand dollars if i
put a thousand dollars out of your
checkbook on the ground in front of your
house and said go have a gunfight with
an unknown number of people for that
thousand dollars out of your checkbook
would you do that only if you're a fool
especially given the fact that this man
has spent many times that thousands of
dollars in order to defend himself in
court it makes no sense to do from a
tactical or practical perspective so
you're far better off to just get a good
description be a good witness call the
police and i know it's not a great thing
and it feels like crap but stay in the
house it's the smart thing to do because
of course he comes over here and now
he's confronting this man we don't know
what and why and now the guy decides to
drive off with that so he shoots him
here now i don't see an objective
reasonable deadly threat now i don't
know if this guy you know has said well
he pointed a gun at me or whatever the
news story the little bit of information
i have says nothing about that i think
the guy was just driving off now of
course if we talk about this in light of
the law in israel now the law in israel
apparently has a very particular idea
that allows a person
on their property to shoot a burglar who
is stealing their stuff it's actually
fairly similar to texas penal code 9.42
that and theft in the nighttime allows
the use of deadly force as well however
note in this incident that the
prosecutor has said no he wasn't on his
property he was out in front of his
property and the principle that that
reminds us of as good saints sober moral
prudent people
is that you want to be very cautious in
the application of even that kind of
idea and the reason for that is is that
there are very specific and particular
limits and even if it is legally allowed
i think it's morally wrong and i think
again as a good saint sober moral
prudent person you use a firearm as a
tool of last resort to defend your life
so i don't think it was necessarily
wrong of this man to have his firearm on
his person if he chose to go out there
and confront these guys and try to get
him out of his vehicle in case they did
threaten his life but using the firearm
here i think is morally reprehensible
and certainly using the firearm in a
manner where we see him using it here
that he's shooting at the getaway car of
the other driver who isn't a risk to him
or his life is not morally acceptable
that is using deadly force to stop a
property theft which is again at most a
claim against your insurance company
now let's think about this man in the
moment now he has actually shot the the
car thief in the head taken that man's
life and so now what is going to go on
is his car going home with him of course
it's not going home with him he doesn't
get to keep his car it is now evidence
in a crime so it is going to be
impounded for an unknown number of
months and years he's already lost the
vehicle then he is going to spend
thousands tens of thousands to hundreds
of thousands of dollars on attorney's
fees in trying to defend that he was
within the law in doing this he's going
to spend sleepless nights and nights in
prison and nights in jail waiting for a
jury to figure out if he can go home or
maybe take a plea deal from a prosecutor
who has not shown that he has any
indication that he has any leniency
towards this action all those things say
this cost him far more than the few
hundred dollars of his insurance
deductible and i get it friends that
that feels like crap and that you don't
like that and it is not okay to let
thieves get away with their thievery and
we've got to do something about law
breakers and people who would steal
other people's stuff and even though it
is morally reprehensible what we what
these guys did i want you to put
yourself in the position of this
homeowner of this vehicle owner and
don't take risks with your life like
this don't take risks with your future
like this only use a firearm as a tool
of last resort because otherwise you
might beat the charges but just like
this guy you're not going to beat the
ride and the cost is not worth it to do
this kind of stuff be smarter as you
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