Shoot To Kill Looters

It looks like we both posted at the same time. From what I have read over several years, there are states where little resistance to those having guns at home that shoot intruders. In some locations you can shoot on your property, not just in the house.

Best find out how things go where you are living, then feel secure in what you may have to defend your home or property. Some states may just not allow any self defense positions at all. I don't know so make no claims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-defense_(United_States)

http://www.propublica.org/article/t...sweeping-self-defense-laws-just-like-floridas

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/04/us/table.selfdefense.laws/
 

Yeah... but the thrill..... OHHHHHH the thrill of blowing someone away. It's almost an aphrodesiac
 

Were the looters coming towards my store to loot and steal my property, I'd loosen a gas line as I left the building. I'd have a remote light switch activator. Wait until they broke the windows and beat down the door and were inside. Hit the remote that turns the lights on. KABOOM!! If they are inside, stealing my property, they are NOT innocent.
 
Oh come on Koala.... Don't you find it exciting to fantasize about taking a human life for some RC cola and a bag of Doritos?? Even better if we can imagine them blown to bits with body parts flying everywhere..
 
According to the articles I read, pleading fear was pretty easy to do and where homes or property are concerned many courts will give easy acceptance of fear. That becomes a claim and there is no way to prove or disprove that emotion.

So fire away if in your home and someone is intruding. All this stuff about not being allowed to shoot your gun in your home is pure nonsense. It looks like most states will allow that to happen.

Did anyone bother to read the links I posted?

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/04/us/table.selfdefense.laws/

Nearly all states allow some use of deadly force to protect yourself inside your home, based on the "Castle Doctrine." In some areas, many people still have a "duty to retreat" if possible against an attacker outside their home. But some states have expanded their laws to boost those protections in other areas.
 
BobF said:
The discussion recently was about the laws and courts, not someones sarcasm.
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I agree Bob, I've never had to use my gun to protect myself in my home, and if I did, I wouldn't be getting my jollies in doing so. That type of stereotyping is unrealistic and offensive to me. In Colorado, lethal force is not legal in the defense of property only, but if there is a threat on the homeowner or another in the home from a looter or invader, then the 'make my day' is appropriate. One would have to be there to experience the situation to make the decision on what to do.

I think in the case of police shooting looters stealing from a store, killing would not be legal, as it is not their home and their lives are not being threatened by the looting.

18-1-706 Use Of Physical Force In Defense Of Property

A person is justified in using reasonably and appropriate physical force upon another person when and to the extent that he reasonably believes it necessary to prevent what he reasonably believes to be an attempt by the other person to commit theft, criminal mischief, or criminal tampering involving property, but he may use deadly physical force under these circumstances only in defense of himself or another as described in section 18-1-704.
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