[phairmason]

Originally Posted by bbbbbb

Consider this on home invasion:
Just imagine that you pick up the paper and you see where a home invasion took place and the police were called and the coroner was also called to pick up two robbers who are clearly dead with bullet holes in their chests.
The next day in the paper, another situation is defined where a robber who is deceased needs to he picked up by the Coroner.
The next day in another paper, two robbers are found dead in a home of an elderly couple and the police are investigating.

Whatever happened to "an eye for an eye" (aka appropriate consequences)? Death is not an appropriate consequence for the crime committed--that is more vigilantism (aka stand-your-ground) than justice.

Originally Posted by bbbbbb

Well folks, how long do you think this would continue? Problem solved!!!
We lived in Idaho and Utah, at that time, home invasions and robberies were almost unheard of, except in the obituaries.

As a native rural Montanan, I believe you are indulging in hyperbole and wishful nostalgia.