In the United States, if someone enters your home or property illegally, they take a very real chance of being shot. Except for a few select communities like Chicago, New York, and Washington D.C. where most of the time defending yourself with a firearm is illegal, you are taking your life into your own hands when you trespass on someone's property late at night. So, it comes as not real shock that an Argentine mayor would advise farmers in rural areas to protect themselves as is necessary. After all, police response out in BFE some times takes hours. But this concept is lost on the ultra liberal 'news' organization, Reuters, who leads their story off with:

An Argentine mayor is so fed up with crimes on his patch he has told farmers to go ahead and gun thieves down in cold blood.

To suggest that someone trying to defend their family against an unknown intruder in the dead of night, is someone who is acting without emotion, shows just how removed from reality Reuters can be. Fear for your life is a very real emotion, and Reuters suggestion that someone who is being stalked or attacked should just lay down and die is reckless and appalling.