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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

So, the next time you get lost and go to the wrong house, the owner
should be entitled to shoot you in the back as you leave?

Yes, Martin's victims were attempting burglary, but that does not
justify shooting them as they fled.

Unless the law was amended when the term 'felony' was dropped, it is the
duty of a citizen to try to apprehend someone in commission of a serious
crime *BY ANY MEANS AT HIS DISPOSAL*.

While a burglar is still on private property, even if he is leaving, he
is still in commission of that crime.

I rest my case, M'Lud.

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