clerk or an innocent bystander is killed. you are an attorney, you can probably see where i am going with this. so what's going to happen is the surviving members of the victims are going to contact an attorney. and they are going to see about putting together a lawsuit alleging negligence on the part of the homeon owner and then there will be a wrongful death issue -- >> let me stop you there. first of all, if someone breaks into your house, that's pretty much going to protect frucivil liability there. but let me back up a second. if i were a burglar -- and i haven't been yet-- the last thing i would want to do is break do into a house with a gun because i would be afraid the gun would be used against me. i would prefer to break into a house that doesn't have a gun. secondly, i wouldn't be so interested in actually stealing a gun because as you properly noted, there are serial numbers, when guto pawn it or sell it, the gun's going to be traced right back to you. if you want to buy one on the