Answer: You LOSE!
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Burglar with sledgehammer, homeowner with gun…
Date: Mar 24, 2007 9:36 PM
The quote that the majority of instances in which a citizen
with a gun is faced with the threat of violent crime, are
thwarted by the mere display of the firearm. Shooting is
not necessary. This is supported the by research of criminologist
Dr. Gary Kleck Click here: Gary Kleck – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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FYI (copy below):
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070323/NEWS01/303230014
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Slain intruder shot five times
Man tells police he was attacked with sledgehammer
BY JENNIFER BAKER AND JANICE MORSE | [email protected] AND
[email protected]

HAMILTON — Jamie Buck was asleep early Friday when a
sledgehammer shattered his side door?s window and a stranger
burst into his rented home, demanding money or jewelry.

That was the last demand Millard Brandenburg would ever
make.

Brandenburg, 31, was shot to death inside Buck?s Bishop
Avenue home early Friday, seven weeks after Brandenburg?s
latest release from jail. A preliminary investigation
suggests the shooting was justified, authorities say.

Buck, who told police he was hit in the head with the
sledgehammer, was treated at Fort Hamilton Hospital. He
told police in a 911 call that he shot the intruder.

Brandenburg suffered a fatal gunshot to the head, three
shots in the chest and a fifth shot in the left side, Butler
County Coroner Richard Burkhardt said.

Brandenburg tested positive for alcohol use; tests showing
his blood-alcohol level and any other drugs were being
processed, the coroner said.

The deadly encounter between Buck and Brandenburg follows a
similar incident in Covington earlier this week, in which a
man fatally shot an acquaintance. In the Hamilton case,
Buck told police the intruder was a stranger.

So far, it appears both men were acting in self-defense and
are unlikely to face charges, authorities said.

But that?s not always the case. Damon Lloyd, 39, goes on
trial Monday in Warren County. He is charged with voluntary
manslaughter for shooting David Brian Richardson, 46, in the
side yard of his Turtlecreek Township home last fall.

Alan Gottlieb, president of KeepAndBearArms.com, said many
home invasions end quietly when a gun-toting resident scares
away the intruder.

?The only cases that get any news are the ones where the
police are called up and there?s blood on the floor,? he
said.

In the Hamilton case, Buck, 33, appears to have been
defending himself, said Butler County Prosecutor Robin
Piper.

But Piper said he is waiting for police to finish
investigating before he decides what to do. If the
investigation upholds Buck?s account of self-defense, Piper
could file no charges ? or he could let a grand jury decide.

Buck, who works as a roofer, called 911 and calmly told
police: ?This guy broke into my house?He tried to kill me
with a sledgehammer, sir?He is lying dead in my kitchen.?

Lee North, a 34-year-old friend of Buck, came out of Buck?s
home Friday morning and said, ?That dude died right there on
the kitchen floor. The whole kitchen?s blood.?

North said he saw a trail of blood from the kitchen to a
bedroom.

Buck was wearing a white bandage around his head when he
came home around 9:30 a.m. to get some belongings.

?Everything?s fine. I?m OK. Thank you,? he said, waving
off news reporters as he climbed into a relative?s van.

A next-door neighbor, Chris Perkins, said he heard a loud
bang followed by four gunshots.

Perkins? wife, Lucinda, described Buck as ?very fun, very
friendly?I have no idea why they would pick on him.?

Brandenburg lived with his mother on 6th Street in Hamilton.

During the past decade, he had been cited into Hamilton
Municipal Court on more than two dozen offenses including
traffic citations, ethnic intimidation, assault, resisting
arrest and forgery.

Brandenburg served two state prison terms; for a drug
conviction and failing to pay child support. He was last
released from prison in May, but was locked up in
Resolutions, Butler County?s minimum security jail, from
July 12 until Feb. 2 for failing to comply with police
orders, officials said.

As of late Friday, officials weren?t saying if they knew
what led Brandenburg to Buck?s doorstep.

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