# Can you shoot a robber in the back?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-shoot-a-robber-in-the-back/638883>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 25, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-shoot-a-robber-in-the-back/638883 "2012-10-25T23:06:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-shoot-a-robber-in-the-back/638883/21 "2012-10-26T21:38:53Z")

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> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> The pastor was tried and acquitted.
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> [Jury acquits pastor of shooting burglars in the back](http://www.adn.com/front/story/4267614p-4278352c.html) (memberhip required)

Ah, thanks. I thought he had been tried, and originally I wrote “acquitted”, but then my wife thought he never went to trial, and being a lazy sod I didn’t bother to fact-check.

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**Author:** ![Qwertol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Qwertol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertol)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-shoot-a-robber-in-the-back/638883/22 "2012-10-26T21:40:08Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Ah, thanks. I thought he had been tried, and originally I wrote “acquitted”, but then my wife thought he never went to trial, and being a lazy sod I didn’t bother to fact-check.

Never trust a woman 😉

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-shoot-a-robber-in-the-back/638883/23 "2012-10-27T00:49:39Z")

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Shoot a robber in the back  
Doo-dah doo-dah  
Not an unprovoked attack  
Oh de doo-dah day.

If you run away  
Now you better say  
“I ain’t got any of your stuff  
It’s piled on your duvet!”

(Camp Town Castle Doctrine?)

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