Trident,
YES, I can operate a 12 gauge shotgun under extreme stress...and the acuracy really does not have to be that good.

At close range a shotgun works very nicely.
Lee S.

'A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.'

Somebody tell me what a shotgun in your house has got to do with a 'Well regulated Militia'..?

This is happening right now in my local area.
There is an investigation into to the facts of an out of town school teacher being shot over the weekend while "mistakenly" entering the wrong house while visiting friend's baby shower party.
http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/04/01/1005747/ny-teacher-goes-into-strangers.html

Did the person shooying him ask him to stop, get on the floor and show identification? You don't just shoot someone for being in the house!

There is and will always be crazy people that should not have a gun, or even a screwdriver for that matter.

Because of a few. Do not take my gun away.

Lee S.

yes he did tell the teacher repeatedly to leave and warned him that he had a gun . It was 1.00am in the morning when it happened. There isnt much more info than that. The autopsy will be able to tell if the teacher was high on drugs or alcohol or if there was something wrong with him. No one knows why he was trying to get into apparently a strangers house.

From the article:
"David Park was killed around 1 a.m. Sunday in the suburb of Amherst, near where he was attending a party for a pregnant friend.

Thomas Burton, the homeowner's attorney, says his client repeatedly told Park to leave and told him he had a gun. When Park didn't leave, the homeowner shot him."

I am not judging right or wrong here, nor will I feed the 'gun /no gun' debate, but there are lots of unanswered questions to this situation ... like "How does someone just 'walk into' someone else's home"???

t.

The attorney stated that his client warned the victim repeatedly. Like he would claim otherwise.

As I said "I am not judging..."
t.