[Uncle Miltie]

Hero award for 12 y.o.!

[Smellin Salt]

Unless he’s white and the perps are black.

[Jamestown1630]

NC has the ‘Castle Doctrine’ on the books.

At first, I mistakenly looked up Chicago - and was surprised to find that Illinois does, too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine#States_incorporating_castle_doctrine_principles