[Angelus]

Its About time. I hope this bill is successful.

[maine yankee]

My rights come from Devine Providence.

I didn’t need their approval.

[kbennkc]

Not that good of a law. I do not like the overt act requirement. There should be a presumption the homeowner had just cause for deadly force, if the entry was made uninvited, tumultuously or by stealth.

[muawiyah]

We are pretty close to New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island.

Let's say you make a mistake here in Virginia and kill somebody's relative over something "better handled in other ways" ~ with lawsuits foreclosed that forces you into making use of those guys in the business of killing people.

If it's just a couple of hours drive down here to do a job, they'll do it.

Although we don't have active mafioso here, there are also the posses in DC and Richmond, but they're a little chancy to deal with ~ and not all that smart.

Jus' sayin' putting these things outside the realm of lawsuits is probably not at all a good idea.

[VOA]

“
...the so-called “castle doctrine”...
“

The castle doctrine became law in Missouri a couple of years ago.

A few months after that, two thugs broke into some guy’s apartment in
fairly liberal Columbia MO (home of U. of Missouri and the Journalism School,
alma mater of Uncle Walter Cronkite).
The two thugs left in body bags.

NO CHARGES.

Missouri ain’t Texas. But it seems to be slowly moving that direction.
Thank Gawd!

[jonno]

Del. Joe Morrissey, D-Richmond, objected that the measure would allow a disproportionate response to a minor provocation such as a hand slap.

Hey congressman, it's not that he slapped my hand, it's that he BROKE INTO MY HOUSE - and slapped my hand.

[backwoods-engineer]

Go Old Dominion! I hope we join y’all on that down here in NC!

[jboot]

They killed this one last session. I hope the chances are better this time.