# Ok, if I shouldn't \_shoot\_ the intruder, then...?

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**Created:** [January 19, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-if-i-shouldnt-_shoot_-the-intruder-then/482060 "2009-01-19T23:15:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-if-i-shouldnt-_shoot_-the-intruder-then/482060/452 "2009-01-21T21:30:48Z")

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FTR, the one time I did have a burglar enter my home while I was there, I was in the shower at the time. He ended up getting very badly beaten by a naked, dripping wet man. I did my very best to beat his chemically altered ass to death, but he escaped through the same door by which he had entered. The only reason I didn’t use a gun was because he was between me and where I stored the only gun I owned at that time.  
The very next day I went out and bought a bathroom gun.\*

\*-One made from stainless steel and synthetics so as to resist corrosion.

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