JERRY
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We don't always live in a world we want or need. We live in the real world, the one where logic and reason can occupy precious little place in a courtroom, a milieu where the person who was defending their "castle" is, in many if not most cases, going to be the target of the leftist criminal prosecutor and/or the bottom-feeding plaintiff's lawyer in a civil lawsuit. You come to the door with muffs atop your head or draped around your neck to greet the responding police after you've shot a home-invader; trust me, you're not going to make a favorable impression. If you hide the muffs, assuming you have the time and wit to do so and are later found out, things will only go worse for you. It doesn't take much imagination to hear the da/plaintiff's lawyer assert, "He (the castle defender) was more concerned about his hearing than he was about taking the life of a black teenager, "armed" with a water-pistol, who accidentally entered the wrong house (even if he used a crow bar to do so).
To be clear, I have no problem whatsoever with a victim wanting to save their hearing by donning a set of muffs before encountering an intruder and possibly having to shoot them; I have no desire to be a pioneer (in my thirty years of le, I've never heard of an incident where the home owner had the presence of mind to take such an action) in this self-defense stratagem. And if I were so unlucky to have been caught trying to salvage what little hearing I have left by employing earmuffs in the anticipation of having to shoot someone, I'd argue, "I wear these every night, not just tonight; it's my wife-she snores."
that's a laughable response, as any scenario with enough ridiculous thought can be spun into your being the bad guy no matter what.