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<p>He wouldn’t even have had to take a swing at me - if some guy holding a several foot long sword tells me to get out of his house, my feet would be moving so fast my shoes would come off lol…</p>
<p>i wouldn’t have been robbing a house in the first place???</p>
<p>but yeah, lunging at a guy with a samurai sword.</p>
<p>Where did the student get a legit samurai sword? Don’t those things cost $$$$$?</p>
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<p>Also, I do not find this “balla” or “badass” at all. What kind of person keeps a sword in their home? Furthermore, it is a shame that these economic times can yield such tragedy. He’s lucky the robber–who was probably someone really desperate and poor–did not have a gun. That would have been a great excuse to blow his head off. Any time human life is destroyed it is a shame…</p>
<p>the criminal got exactly what he deserved. this was his 30TH time of breaking and entering/robbing based on his criminal record.</p>
<p>He had JUST been released from a criminal detention center on Saturday.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s a shame that the man died because this will undoubtedly scar the student, but I think that self defense and the infliction of some pain is necessary when dealing with riffraff like this.</p>
<p>There are plenty of poor people in the world. If they ALL stole, what kind of society would we have?</p>
<p>edit: also, according to news reports, the student only swung TWice. TWICE at the criminal.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t think the law will side with the burglar in this case or against the student. Swords are perfectly legal in Baltimore, as is self-defense in one’s own property.</p>
<p>The victim was definitely NOT the burglar in ANY circumstance at all. That, I’m pretty sure, we can all be confident of.</p>
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<p>You ever watch an action movie and enjoy it?</p>
<p>It’s okay to have mixed emotions about some things. The fact that a college student owned a robber with a samurai sword is awesome. The fact that someone got hurt and ultimately died isn’t. The fact that the two go hand-in-hand doesn’t make the first less awesome or the second less tragic.</p>
<p>And people keep various things in their homes for various reasons. Taking a samurai sword with you when someone has broken into your home is no different than the stereotypical (and oft-played comical) golf club.</p>
<p>And yeah, the kid is lucky the robber didn’t have a gun. Doesn’t that go without saying? I don’t even know what you’re getting at with that statement. If I broke into someone’s house and they came at me with a weapon it’d be their fault if I blew their head off with the gun I brought with me? That might not be what you’re saying but it sounds like it.</p>
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Also, it’s clear that the student was not aiming to kill the burglar. Any idiot who intended to kill would have swung at the head, chest, heart-area, etc…not the hand.</p>
<p>This is clearly self defense and just one more repeat-offender off the streets.</p>
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What? He was probably a greedy jerk-off who thought some nerdy college kids would be an easy mark. Desperation isn’t an excuse for crime.</p>
<p>wow…this totally changes the idea i had of what a JHU kid was like…haha im afraid of this kid and intrigued at the same time!</p>
<p>I’m baffled at the people who feels sorry for the burglar and I’m disgusted at those who thinks the student is at fault. What did you expect him to do, sit the burglar down and have a serious talk with him? Who cares if he was desperate and poor, how was the student supposed to know that? You think I’m going to care about someone’s life story if they break into my home and lunge at me? </p>
<p>This man repeatedly broke into peoples’ homes and was released THAT SATURDAY and committed the same crime he went to jail for THAT MONDAY. Obviously, he didn’t learn his lessons the mutiple times before so it had to come down to this. Yes, the man didn’t have a gun, but what if he pulled out a knife? Grabbed something in the garage and bludgeoned the student to death? Strangled him? Then, would he have been a “desperate, poor man fighting today’s economic struggle.” There’s nothing wrong with having a samurai sword in your house. It’s like having a gun, except it’s more expensive and unusual.</p>
<p>This man intruded into this guy’s house and MADE THE FIRST MOVE. Not only is he idiotic for lunging at someone with a sword in their hand while you’re unarmed, he deserved his punishment. The only thing I have to scold the college kid on is going towards the noise. God knows what the man could have had in his hands and a sword can only do so much. He himself could have been killed.</p>
<p>I’m inclined to agree that the student shouldn’t be punished. It’s not necessarily good that the burglar was killed, but the student did it out of self-defense and there’s nothing wrong with defending yourself.</p>
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<p>People who are interested in samurai, for instance, or fans of action movies. My dad has around 7 swords in our house; they can be decorative as well as weapons.</p>
<p>I don’t know if he should be tried, but did he really have to kill him?</p>
<p>lol yes, totally badass.</p>
<p>reminds me of samurai champloo lol</p>
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<p>I think it was stated that the death was accidental.</p>
<p>Has any formal action actulally been taken against the person whose home was invaded ? I haven’t seen anything new about this in the news the last few days.</p>