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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"... Under Colorado’s “Make My Day” law, a homeowner has the right to shoot a home invader if they feel their life or the lives of anyone in the home is at jeopardy."

Show me in the Colorado Revised Statutes where there's any such law entitled 'Make My Day'.

I see Colorado Revised Statutes 18-1-704.5, entitled "Use of deadly physical force against an intruder." but nothing as sensationalist as 'Make My Day' or 'Shoot The Carjacker' or 'Eat Lead You Dirty Hispanic Heathen' or 'Wildly Fire Shots At Shadows'.

That we let the media punks get away with this crap is the same as letting gun banners declare things to be 'Saturday Night Specials' or 'Assault Rifles' or 'Cop-Killer Bullets' or 'Minority-Seeking Missiles'.

Ridiculous. Good thing nobody reads newspapers and local news websites except for us anymore. Golly, they may be negatively influenced by agitation propaganda.

15 posted on 05/05/2015 5:28:35 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: The KG9 Kid

Did a couple searches and it seems that it has been a fairly wide used nickname for the statute that allowed such home protection since 1985. I would guess that if enacted today, it might have a different nickname.


23 posted on 05/06/2015 2:49:00 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Moffat County Sheriff has this:

http://www.moffatcountysheriff.com/pdf/CoStatutes.pdf

They are calling 18-1-704.5 a “Make My Day” law.

I think it is better called the castle doctrine in this specific case. But, CO does allow the use of deadly force anywhere to protect yourself against deadly force.


26 posted on 05/06/2015 6:36:06 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (`)
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