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| | REFLECTIONS ON VIOLENCE, GUNS, AND THE DEFENSIVE USE OF LETHAL FORCE |
 | | Suppose the householder, hearing the intruder, retrieves his deer rifle from under the bed, creeps silently down the stairs, and draws a bead on the back of the intruder's head from a range of three meters. |
 | | Truncating the householder's use of deadly force probably would, by reducing one of the occupational hazards of housebreaking, lead to more burglary, and thus reduce the caution housebreakers now take to strike only when they believe dwellings are unoccupied.[63] More housebreaking would seem unavoidably to lead to more confrontations between intruders and householders. |
 | | Although the householder, divested of his gun and his privilege to use it, might personally pose less of a threat to the intruder than he would with both gun and privilege, the householder still represents a threat that a rational intruder would surely respect. |
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