This is an absolutely insane position to take. There are countless legitimate reasons for someone to be on your property without your knowledge. Workers from the electric or water utility trying to fix your services after a storm, for one. What if there is an emergency and firefighters need to rescue you from a blaze or EMT workers need to get into your house where you are having a heart attack? What if police are tracking a dangerous fugitive in the area and come into your yard or back yard to make sure he isn't hiding behind your tool shed? What if you get into a major car accident and a relative tries to swing by your place to get a change of clothes and some paperwork for you while you're still unconscious and unable to warn them?
Legitimate defense requires discrimination. If you have a gun and a dog, you can tell the difference between all those things I listed and a junkie trying to steal the copper out of your AC unit or a burglar trying to break in and you can decide in the moment whether or not shooting or whether or not calling your dog back are appropriate.
You can also add in home security systems, surveillance cameras, motion sensor fog lights and sturdy locks to further protect your family and property, but no, boobytraps are an insane and unjustifiable idea.
First off, I was replying to a comment saying that a property owner should have the right to boobytrap whatever they want on private property, so my comment was addressing that, not a Trump sign with razor blades specifically.
But since you want to focus on the sign exclusively, These signs are put out by the road. You know, where burried water and electric lines are, that a utilities worker might be servicing. So a utilities worker may need to move the sign to do their job, which was the first example I gave of someone having legitimate reasons to be on his property. Sure it got "exactly who it was supposed to hurt here" but that doesn't mean it will always go down that way. I'm very sorry your intuition is so underdeveloped that you need every last detail of a hypothetical situation spelled out for you to understand it. Try harder next time!
This is in no way similar to the "think of the children" rhetoric, and I never said anything about children, but if you want to try and change my mind, go ahead and try.
This is an absolutely insane position to take. There are countless legitimate reasons for someone to be on your property without your knowledge. Workers from the electric or water utility trying to fix your services after a storm, for one. What if there is an emergency and firefighters need to rescue you from a blaze or EMT workers need to get into your house where you are having a heart attack? What if police are tracking a dangerous fugitive in the area and come into your yard or back yard to make sure he isn't hiding behind your tool shed? What if you get into a major car accident and a relative tries to swing by your place to get a change of clothes and some paperwork for you while you're still unconscious and unable to warn them?
Legitimate defense requires discrimination. If you have a gun and a dog, you can tell the difference between all those things I listed and a junkie trying to steal the copper out of your AC unit or a burglar trying to break in and you can decide in the moment whether or not shooting or whether or not calling your dog back are appropriate.
You can also add in home security systems, surveillance cameras, motion sensor fog lights and sturdy locks to further protect your family and property, but no, boobytraps are an insane and unjustifiable idea.
First off, I was replying to a comment saying that a property owner should have the right to boobytrap whatever they want on private property, so my comment was addressing that, not a Trump sign with razor blades specifically.
But since you want to focus on the sign exclusively, These signs are put out by the road. You know, where burried water and electric lines are, that a utilities worker might be servicing. So a utilities worker may need to move the sign to do their job, which was the first example I gave of someone having legitimate reasons to be on his property. Sure it got "exactly who it was supposed to hurt here" but that doesn't mean it will always go down that way. I'm very sorry your intuition is so underdeveloped that you need every last detail of a hypothetical situation spelled out for you to understand it. Try harder next time!
This is in no way similar to the "think of the children" rhetoric, and I never said anything about children, but if you want to try and change my mind, go ahead and try.