Posted on 01/15/2011 8:13:37 PM PST by seton89
How long before standard self-defense measures include not getting the police involved when you defend yourself?
I’ve had my house robbed. The guy was caught red-handed fencing my stuff and had a long rap sheet. Yet it took 7 years and 9 appearances by me for him to eventually be held accountable.
Knowing what I know now, I’m not sure I’d opt for a 7 year ordeal if I were to stumble upon someone robbing my house sometime in the future.
I'm sorry, but if someone comes walking into my home uninvited, I'm going to assume he's up to no good and protect myself and my family. To do otherwise would put us at risk.
Incorrect. Someone breaks into your home, or enters without permission and doesn't leave, if you are in fear of your life, or the life of another, then it is an affirmative defense for the use of deadly force. . .regardless of the “family” name.
You wish to give some unknown, erratic guy that came into your home uninvited and won't leave the benefit of the doubt, place yourself at risk, and your family, have at it. Your call. I disagree.
Cured. . .unless he is now a zombie.
Unlocked. Not open.
In either case, it doesn’t not matter one bit.
The guy entered the home and would not leave.
In your mind, an unlocked door = permission to enter. . . ?
Frankly, in a state where such entry has the death penalty, an unlocked door should be equally punished. That way those accidents will just disappear eh!
It may be an “affirmative defense” in a court of law, but what if it’s just ol’Guido, the neighbor down the street who runs numbers for the mob in the local tire factory ~ now you shoot him there’s no “affirmative defense” ~ and you, and maybe your entire family, just burn up in a fire or something.
Now you are just being silly.
Otherwise, living in fear like you obviously do, is not a way to live.
What? The Mob doesn’t exist?
They keep lowering the limit. When I got my first driver's license in NY State in 1963, the limit was 0.15%.
I really have no idea what my the relationship between my blood levels and ability to function normally is (I've only been stopped once and that was six hours after I had one beer with lunch.) but I seriously doubt that I wouldn't be able to pass some reasonable performance test at this 0.18% if the descriptions of what it might take to get to that level are accurate.
ML/NJ
May be impaired as to ability to drive, but not knowing you are in the wrong house? Just because the legal limit is at .08 does not mean that .16 (twice the legal limit) is twice as hammered. The legal limit used to be .15 for a while, and a person at .14 was therefore legally considered to be able to drive a car.
Of course, if this was in a Southern state....this case would be thrown out
The perp was DRUNK...severely drunk. D’Amico had every right to defend himself....heck he even told the guy to leave first.
Someone breaks into my residence...they are not asked to leave. If they are quick enough, they may avoid taking a few rounds.
This lawsuit shows we have too many Criminal Rights laws. Homeowners should have every right to defend themselves...without the threat of being criminal prosecuted or sued in Court.
Park broke into the house, while intoxicated, and posed a threat to D’Amico and his family. Park is the criminal
Sorry ~ you are just too generalized in your personal rules. The point of the law is to allow you to defend yourself, not to lash out and kill those who offend you with their presence.
In Texas, we have long had laws allowing home owners to use deadly force for self defense in their homes and around their homes at night. Recently the TX legislature passed a "stand your ground" law that gives even more legal protection to those using lethal force to defend their lives and property. This law gives immunity to civil law suits in cases where a person legitimately uses lethal force in self defense.
I have a neighbor who learned the hard way that he should draw the drapes so that passing bears cannot see the refrigerator. The bears have learned that they often contain food.
My neighbor had his doors locked and the lock suffered no damage. The bear completely destroyed the door into his screened porch and the door into his home and made a mess of the place. The door lock was unharmed.
Security at my place consists of armed residents and vigilant neighbors. I almost literally live in a glass house and the glass doors would yield to a rock in seconds. I don't wish to change things so that I live in a cage.
When I first moved to my present home I planted early onions and they were doing great when a LARGE BEAR came along and scooped them out in one big swipe and ate all of them. We had a bear the next year too but the Fish and Game folks said he was a different one ~ but he knew where to go.
I've never understood these guys who think it's meaningful to leave your doors unlocked. At least slow the bears down a minute or two, and keep the Fish and Game number close at hand!
Unlocked, not open...
I’m talking about a stranger that I can see as was the case in this shooting.
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