Posted on 07/24/2016 4:06:49 AM PDT by marktwain
I have a Class A Massachusetts License to Carry. You are quite correct about disparity of force.
But I don't think that MA is the only state where you can't shoot through the door.
If you can’t defend it, you don’t own it. This applies to your home, car, purse, wallet...even your body if a woman. If you must comply at the point of a gun, you don’t own any of these things though you may believe you do.
And if it is the case where you cannot legally defend these things, you need to move. Period.
What they need to do is send some drunk teens to the homes of politicians late at night.
The liberals have hog tied the citizen. You are unable to protect yourself and if you do YOU will be the one in jail not the perp
“What they need to do is send some drunk teens to the homes of politicians late at night.”
Guaranteed to get some dead teens.
They live under different rules than we do.
Correct on shooting through the door. Wisconsin has a castle law and the jerk/asshole/evil intruder has to be inside.
What jury would ever convict him?
MA voters gave us John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, etc.
I wouldn’t care to have my fate decided by the likes of them.
The liberals have hog tied the citizen
This is particularly the case in MA. The rich “Limousine-Liberals” in Boston passed laws MANY years ago to protect their spoiled progeny against legal recourse.
Even car theft, in MA, is considered ‘ unauthorized use of an automobile’.
Joe Horn shooting controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Horn_shooting_controversy
Legitimate self defense. It’s irrelevant that the kid thought he was at the home of a friend.
MASS has rejected a very basic principle of human nature.
Kind of a threshold doctrine. They need to be past your threshold and inside the house or apartment to be considered an immediate threat. Not surprising that’s the law in Massachusetts. But unless I’m mistaken it’s the same in many if not most other States. Texas is a famous exception. But on the other hand, they only just began permitting Open Carry this year. So every jurisdiction is different.
Shooting THROUGH a door means not being sure of your target and what is beyond.
Being scared is not an excuse. Men in combat are scared, but they still control their situation.
In MA, the law states the gun must be locked up at all times. WTF is the point of having a gun if it is locked up?
I presume this law also applies to the bodyguards of the politicians/s
North Carolina also. Plus he better be facing you .
If it was determined he was trying to get away you might have a legal problem.
The only time one should shoot blindly through a closed door is if said door is to one’s bedroom and one is in there. Otherwise it is better to wait until one gets a clear view of the target, or perp. As this man is about to learn the hard way.
In the people’s Republic of New Jersey, this home owner would be in Deep Sh1t.....we are trained to be good little victims here.
Section 131L. (a) It shall be unlawful to store or keep any firearm, rifle or shotgun including, but not limited to, large capacity weapons, or machine gun in any place unless such weapon is secured in a locked container or equipped with a tamper-resistant mechanical lock or other safety device, properly engaged so as to render such weapon inoperable by any person other than the owner or other lawfully authorized user. For purposes of this section, such weapon shall not be deemed stored or kept if carried by or under the control of the owner or other lawfully authorized user
We report, you decide.
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