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MA: What to do if someone breaks into your home
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It’s a scary situation, someone breaking into your home and you’re inside. Police said the first thing you should always do is try and escape, but if you can’t; “We recommend getting to a safe room, make sure you have your phone with you. If you don’t have access to a phone, if there’s a phone in your bedroom, dial 9-1-1 and leave it off the hook. Officers that get a 9-1-1 call will respond to your house,” said Chicopee Police Officer Mike Wilk.
If hiding doesn’t work and you physically confront an intruder, in some cases you could actually face criminal charges. According to state law, you can only use force in self-defense if you fear the person who broke into your home was going to hurt or kill you or someone else in your home. |
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Millwright66
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And this is where, ultimately, our elitist "betters'" lead us. Rendered defenseless in our own homes being forced into a "duty to retreat" into the arms of co-conspirator criminals or cower helpless in terror awaiting the "tender mercy" of some some drug-infused, racially antagonistic, armed invader while awaiting the intervention of law enforcement probably minutes away.
IOW, MA residents, "when seconds count" help is at least minutes' away - and maybe longer - in more rural areas of your state. You might want to take a legislator home with you to "feed the crocodile" . |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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