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What is your state law to protecting property?
« on: January 08, 2015, 12:26:38 pm »


 You can not shoot to Protect Property. If someone steals a four wheeler from your yard, you still can't show a weapon or you'll be on the way to jail too. Unless you are in immanent sever  harm or belief of possible death, you can not discharge a firearm. End of story - I know there are many states where I wouldn't want to be a burglar there.

So what can you legally use your weapon to defend?

Here, life and life of others.
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Re: What is your state law to protecting property?
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2015, 02:22:27 pm »
Here, life and life of others is the only way you can discharge a weapon in an altercation.

However, you can use it as a show of force, without pointing it at the person. Simply pulling it out and holding it to your side, pointing down, is a legal way to stop an aggressor.  Open carry is also legal, so it also shows the person you are armed and it might be better to back off. Once you point it at a person, you might as well pull the trigger. The consequences are nearly the same.
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Re: What is your state law to protecting property?
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2015, 04:29:53 pm »
Can't use deadly force to protect property in Nebraska.  If you are fear of your life or safety you can defend yourself.  I don't think the law is that specific otherwise.  I don't know that you are "required" to flee first...
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Re: What is your state law to protecting property?
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2015, 09:32:46 pm »
I believe ga. Is a stand your gound state. Don't quote me on that tho.

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Re: What is your state law to protecting property?
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2015, 09:46:37 pm »
Utah, shoot to protect yourself, another person, or your property.  No retreat required, though avoidance is recommended.
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Re: What is your state law to protecting property?
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2015, 05:59:01 am »
FL is definitely a stand your ground law. The anties are always attacking it. They demanded the governor re look at the law, last year and the answer was, there is nothing wrong with it.
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Re: What is your state law to protecting property?
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2015, 03:26:02 pm »
Just from my point of view.  I can't see abandoning my house because some criminal decides to break in.  As far as I know I can make a citizen's arrest and call the cops.  If the person is not threatening me and they run, I am no allowed to shoot them.  If they attack me, I'm allowed to defend myself.  I certainly would not want to kill someone over some property.  It would not make moral sense to me.  Someone a few years go in Omaha, was working in a store and a 16 yo kid walks in, picks up some beer and walks out the door.  The proprietor chases him down the street with a gun and shoots and kills him.  The store was closed, the proprietor charged with murder.  The kid is dead.  Not only would I have trouble living with myself if I killed someone over something so minor, just from the point of view of the consequences, I would not want to wreck my life and my family that way.  I tend to like "stand your ground" laws just because they at least delineate clearly that I don't have to run from a criminal who is trying to steal my property or attack me.  I don't know that I'm required to anyway, but in some places it has been interpreted that way.  I seriously doubt that the incidents that have been presented by the media as being caused by "stand your ground" laws would not have happened anyway.  Belligerence and stupidity have always been around before those laws and will continue to be around regardless of the law.
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