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Originally posted by legion
Anyone on your property in the middle of the night trying to steal your stuff is a potential threat.
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Although I'd love to agree with this guy, the rule is typically that you can only discharge your weapon if you believe you are in IMMINENT danger. In other words, you can't use deadly force to defend property. Period. Goes for guns, poisonous spiders, booby-traps, etc. At least this is what I was told in a concealed-carry course years ago. Not a lawyer, YMMV, etc. but I'm pretty sure that's the rule. Now, he probably should have taken a lesson from what LAPD always does - say "I think he's got a gun", empty the magazine into the perp. and then let the mess sort itself out as a mistake/misunderstanding after the fact, claiming "I thought he had a gun and was gonna' shoot me!"
They'd only charge him with manslaughter in that case and he'd plea out with six months probation or something. End result: one more POS juvenile hoodlum off the street (thankfully before procreation, benefiting the gene pool) and chalk one up for people being able to stand up for themselves.
Of course the cops will condemn this. If the citizenry actually starts demonstrating the ability to handle its problems for itself, they're out of their jobs, right? They want us dependent on the nanny state to take care of them in their hour of need (and given the response times for PDs in SoCal to 9-1-1 calls, "hour" of need is an appropriate choice of words. . .)
Sounds like at the end of the day it's good guys: 1, bad guys: 0 with the referees (gubmint lackeys) trying to reverse it.