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Originally Posted by flipper35
If someone is in my home and I state I have a weapon and they choose to not listen to my instructions at that point I would believe that I and my family would be in danger.
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Right. And if you were not
really in danger, (and could prove it), you might spend the rest of your natural life paying protection money to your cell mates in prison. You, and others, are confusing how the law works in this country. Just because you say that you were in fear for your life, or make up your own standard for when that occurs, (such as anyone being in your house and not responding to your commands), does not mean that you will not be (rightly) convicted of murder.
What if it's some college student who is so dead drunk that they are confused about where they are or wandered into the wrong house? (True case). How about an old person with Alzheimers? Someone not so old with dementia but harmless?
I'm not denying that there are some very bad people out there that need killing or that I would not shoot someone if truly necessary. But some of you seem to think that you can make up your own murder laws...either that or you seriously don't understand the ones that actually exist.
FWIW, I know the defense lawyer in the MN. case. He is the nephew of my godfather and could not carry the jockstrap of his uncles or my dad but wow, he got in the papers.
