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Originally Posted by Head416
Read the rest; clearly you can only kill in defense. Saying you were scared isn't enough. You have to be scared, and the danger has to be imminent, and deadly force has to be necessary to prevent the attack, and this all has to be deemed "reasonable" by a jury after the fact.
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That's not how it was interpreted in the Horn case. The guy came out of his house, ran after, and shot two burglars in the back who were leaving his neighbor's house. No self defense, no defending his home. He claimed they frightened him and the grand jury let him go.