Man arrested for allegedly shooting gun at home

[jpak]

http://morningjournal.com/articles/2011/05/31/news/mj4607708.txt

After three calls to Elyria police on Sunday accusing his neighbors of burglarizing his home, Daryl Arnett was arrested yesterday morning for drunkenly shooting his gun toward his neighbor’s home, according to an Elyria police report.

Arnett, 25, filed a police report on Sunday at 1:08 p.m. alleging a burglary at his 830 Allen St. home, the report stated. Two hours later, he called police again to reportedly give insufficient information that his neighbors at 824 Allen St. had his belongings. At just after 5 p.m. Sunday, officers were dispatched to reports Arnett was standing outside his home waving a handgun around.

At around 12:45 a.m. yesterday, officers were dispatched back to the area of Arnett’s home after his neighbors called police stating he had fired multiple shots toward their home.

Two women, who Arnett accused of having the property, told police they were standing outside their home before police arrived and saw Arnett standing near the sidewalk, waving a small black handgun toward their home, claiming “he is no (expletive).” The women then told police they heard a gunshot from the direction Arnett was standing and they ran into their home.

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Would this be legal under the GOP/NRA Castle Doctrine?

:shrug:

[ergot]

1. Legal? Only if he really was an expletive.

...

[ileus]

2. It depends what did they steal?

[sharesunited]

3. Not Castle Doctrine. Just the imaginary "right" to keep and bear arms (i.e. general 2A mischief).

[AndyTiedye]

6. The Owners of Castles Have Been Known to Lay Seige to Other Castles

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-j9S5xmagEU/TE0E9dARNkI/AAAAAAAAAi0/NMOn5APwS-A/s320/Castle+siege.jpg

but this isn't the Middle Ages anymore. Book him!

[Glassunion]

4. No

[PavePusher]

5. Unrecced for being a really stupid question.

But you knew that.

[oneshooter]

7. I just conceder the source of the question. n/t

[ileus]

8. what is the GOP/NRA 's Castle Doctrine proposed law?

[The Green Manalishi]

9. Of course not.

Dumb question.
The jerk should be looking at serious jail time, as should anyone who discharges a gun towards anyone who is not threatening them.
I had thought I'd seen some pretty pathetic strawmen in 18 years on the internet, but this is a new one.
An idiot with a gun is an idiot, and should face the civil and criminal consequences. That has nothing to do with my opinion that people who break into someone else's property while it is occupied should be legally assumed to be a threat and shot without penalty, criminal or civil.

You might find that those of us who are rather fervent with regard to the right to keep and bear arms; even someone like me who is rather regressive in viewing robbers, rapists and carjackers as best removed from the gene pool without incurring to taxpayers the cost of a trial are the harshest in our condemnation of any sort of misuse of firearms at all.

[benEzra]

10. No, but you knew that. (n/t)