Look, it's easy for us to talk about shooting home invaders for being home invaders. It should absolutely be justified if we do, but there's a psychological toll on taking human life that not everyone is willing to pay if they can avoid it. I get it. When someone is just trespassing, though, things get kind of murky. Is it justified? Legally, probably not, even if the intention is to enter the home.
But it's kind of rare when someone with any degree of fame ends up using a gun in self-defense. They normally don't have to, but Dylan Sprouse is apparently the exception.
If you don't recognize the name, you probably didn't watch a lot of Disney Channel in the late 2000s. There, he and his twin brother Cole starred in The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, where they were mischievous kids living in a luxury hotel. He was also Adam Sandler's son in Big Daddy, while his brother was Ross's son Ben on Friends.
It's confusing.
Anyway, Sprouse and his wife had an incident that far too many of us are concerned about, and why we have guns. It's also why Dylan Sprouse has a gun, also.
ctor Dylan Sprouse reportedly tackled an intruder and held him at gunpoint after the man allegedly broke into the $2 million Hollywood Hills property the "Suite Life" star shares with wife Barbara Palvin.
Law enforcement officials received a call from "Victoria's Secret" model Palvin, 32, at around 12:30 a.m. on April 17, according to the Los Angeles Times, which reports that the fashion star told authorities she had seen a "creepy guy" outside of their Los Angeles home.
Palvin is understood to have reported the incident as a potential robbery.
The suspect was taken into custody, and no one was injured.
We can debate if Sprouse qualifies as a celebrity these days, as he's mostly stepped away from the limelight while his brother has something of a career resurgence following a stint on Riverdale, but that's a quibble.
Neither had the notable crashouts and drug habits that made them look like Steve Buscemi after a six-month-long bender of nothing but cocaine and hookers--looking at you, Macaulay Culkin, who ironically ended up cleaning up and marrying the Sprouse's co-star on The Suite Life--and so there's no reason they couldn't own firearms.
Dylan apparently exercised his Second Amendment rights, then used them after tackling the guy and making sure he couldn't get away after he broke into the wrong house, though law enforcement sources are also telling the media it was just trespassing.
If it was, in fact, trespassing, not pulling the trigger is the right call.
If it were a break-in, shooting would have been justified, even under California law, as there's no duty to retreat on the books there, but that wouldn't stop a prosecutor from deciding to charge the former child star, especially as it would make great headlines.
Regardless, Sprouse had a gun and the bad guy had a terrible night and a long chat with the police afterward. It's nice to talk about an armed celebrity as an armed citizen story, even if I'm stretching the term "celebrity" a bit by some metrics.
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