now that is the way it should work. "imminent danger" seems to be the
key word and if somebody kicks in your door I would hope that would be
"imminent danger" enough.

let's hope it doesn't happen to any of us,

BRuce

Charlie Self wrote:
JOAT responds:


However (there is almost always a however), if you know they are
armed, and are running away from you, and you feel the person is running
to a protected area (behind a tree, etc.), where they will then shoot at
you, that could be an exception. In some states this would not be a
viable defense. In one state a woman was charged, when she shot (and I
believe killed) an intruder, who had chased her to her basement. The
claim was, she was "not cornered", and so not in imminent danger, that
she had an escape route she could have taken rather than shoot the
person - the basement window. I don't know the outcome of the case.
Not sure of the state, but seems it was Mass.


Or NY. NY used to have, and probably still does, a "retreat until no retreat is
possible" piece of bull**** in its laws.

What makes more sense to me: in Roanoke, VA some years ago (5?), a guy followed
a woman home, kicked down the door to her home and was entering. She shot and
killed him. No charges filed.

Charlie Self
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tautology." Mark Twain's Notebook

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BRuce