kingkarate**
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The point, was that your retort of remembering a specific case was false in that you didnt likely remember the "case" of the burglar who cut his feet on the broken glass--because it is an example given by many instructors of criminal justice and law as an example of how someone can be criminally guilty but still win a civil suit. For example--what year was the case? What state did it take place in? What was the rationale for judgement?
An urban legend is a story of relatively modern day that gets passed around in a society and is typically slightly different with each iteration. It could have been based on fact and slowly became fiction...could have been fiction all along, or factual for the most part all along. This story--I've heard it where the burglar breaks into a house barefooted and cuts his feet on glass. I've heard it happened during Xmas and he came in through a window and cut his feet on broken ornaments, etc etc.
And no, the only thing I mentioned with regard to this subject was that you have the right to protect yourself, family, and property with appropriate force, and that with gun defense you are almost guaranteed to have to deal with a subsequent civil suit or media pressure if it turns racial.
ok well my understanding of urban legend is implicitly myth ie legend. but if you didnt mean it that way then i concede. in my case my friends dad had some guys trying to break into his house and he was basically waiting in side with his gun. he's in queens and he just expressed some ambiguity as to his rights. if i remember correctly he had to wait for them to come in but by chance they ran off.
and in regards to race you are partially wrong imo. it completely depends on your race. noone wants to hear about black on asian crime. we can hear about the duke lacrosse case promoted by the new york times but nothing on deadly racial motivated attacks against guatemalens in camden. real justice simply isnt that arbitrary. these flaws arent something to base your safety off of either. one could argue that the courts greater attention to white black crimes is simply isolated and no indication of the law in a larger context. i and many others know this too be false and such language to me is simply a mechanism to deny further investigation and the possible exposure of a larger problem.