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   Message 32,067 of 32,593   
   Nosmo King to Omar Brotherly Love   
   Re: Florida homeowner turns tables on ho   
   30 Nov 25 13:32:21   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, fl.general, sac.politics   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.politics.republicans   
   From: no@smoking.com   
      
   On 11/30/25 12:18 AM, Omar Brotherly Love wrote:   
   > https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/us-news/homeowner-turns-tables-on-home-   
   > invaders-shoots-one-dead-as-others-run-for-their-lives/   
   >   
   > A Florida homeowner came out guns blazing when a crew of would-be burglars   
   > attempted to barge into his family house — with one of the crooks left   
   > dead and the others still in the wind.   
   >   
   > Gunfire erupted from the home in Kendall around 7 p.m., where a stranger   
   > was lurking on the porch and three others were standing in the yard when   
   > the homeowner saw them, reports said.   
   >   
   > “I heard my mom scream, ‘Get off my porch, I’m going to call   
   911,’” the   
   > brave homeowner told NBC 6 South Florida. “So I became frantic and I   
   > started looking for my gun.”   
   >   
   > He went outside with the weapon to ward the menaces off, but they wouldn’t   
   > leave and instead tried to force their way into the house.   
   >   
   > So the homeowner opened fire — striking one of the intruders twice.   
   >   
   > Home security footage captured the gunfire, and screaming that ensued.   
   >   
   > “I wasn’t trying to kill him, but when he barged in, I was scared for my   
   > life,” the homeowner said. “Not only for my life, I was scared for my   
   > mom.”   
   >   
   > Three of the suspects fled and remain on the loose.   
   >   
   > But the fourth man — who was shot in the torso — was transported to a   
   > hospital and later died.   
   >   
   > The shaken homeowner had no regrets about defending his family — but   
   > wished things didn’t have to have to turn out the way they did.   
   >   
   > “I wish it was all a bad dream. Like this is a nightmare,” he told NBC 6.   
   >   
   > “I’m going to need years and years of therapy. Worst night of my life. I   
   > wish it never happened.”   
   >   
      
   That right there is how it's done.   
      
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