Vacancy.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)

Seventy-year-old Billy Jackson, who owns many rental properties in Louisville, Kentucky's rough west end, and his wife were cleaning and repairing an apartment that a tenant had vacated after about eight years of occupancy. When Jackson needed a furnace filter, he decided that it would be a good idea to carry his pistol, which he had set on the mantle, because his vehicle was parked about a block away, and so he put it in his waistband. As he neared his vehicle, two men yelled out of a window, asking if he had work for them to do. He said yes, he had a painting job, and one man came down to inquire further.

Jackson opened his wallet, which was loaded with money from making first-of-the-month rent collections because it was two days past June 1, to get a business card and he then wrote out the address of the nearby apartment, and then he went back to his repair work.

At the apartment, Jackson didn't remove the gun from his pants. A few minutes later, someone knocked at the door, and so Jackson, who was expecting a prospective tenant, opened it. Two men, one armed with a gun, pushed their way into the apartment, yelling, according to Jackson in an interview he gave to WLKY Channel 32, "You're going to die. Give us your wallet. You're going to die."

Upon hearing their words, Jackson got the idea firmly in the back of his mind that ...