Police say University of South Carolina student fatally shot while trying to enter wrong home

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Police say University of South Carolina student fatally shot while trying to enter wrong home
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A University of South Carolina student was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street early on Saturday, police said.

Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, 20, of Connecticut, was dead by the time police responded to reports of a home burglary and shooting, according to a Columbia Police Department news release. Officers found his body on a front porch around 2 a.m., and Donofrio had a gunshot wound to his upper body, the release said.

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This happened to a guy I went to high school with. He did the responsible thing after partying and got a ride home. Unfortunately his ride dropped him off on the wrong block and he got shot by the person who's home he was mistakenly left at.

Just imagine if they were a robber though. Clearly we all need to own guns just in case that happens!!

I know you are being sarcastic, but this is a reality in remote rural areas where cops don't respond immediately.

If you're close enough to shoot, you're close enough to talk to the person you're shooting. It's pretty easy to gage what a person's intentions are that way.

But what if some hypothetical that doesn't apply to this situation at all, huh? Checkmate, lib...

You mean the remote rural areas where the chance of being violently assaulted in your own home by a stranger are at their lowest?

Good thing America sells guns to neo-nazis and domestic abusers with minimal requirements for safe handling and storage then. Otherwise some poor farmer might have their iPad stolen.

That's a fair counterpoint and I'm not going to dispute that because I agree with you. Doesn't change the fact that it's not up for debate that the U.S. Constitution identifies and protects firearm ownership.

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