And, if you screw up and kill somebody just because he made a mistake and came in your front door rather than his own, you could very well find you'd messed with the wrong family.
Always, always find out their surname first!
At the moment this guy probably doesn't have a big problem but it'll cost him something to answer the suit, but he's lucky. In New Jersey he'd be meeting the Profacci family, or maybe the successors to the Gambinos (as a couple of Vietnamese thugs are discovering locked up for trying to rob a local mobster's wife at a hair salon).
What you want to do after one of these killings is NOT SWAGGER but avoid becoming a target.
And honor killings? Those Arabs don't reserve them just for their sl__+_ daughters.
There was a case in Houston where a Scot was acting very strangely and got a cab driver to drop him off in the middle of a neighborhood in Houston. He knocked and made loud noises in the back yard of a home and was shot by the home owner. No charges were ever filed against the home owner, and I don't believe the dead man's family was ever able to file a suit against the home owner either.
You can't?
Well, time for plan B.
“You can’t, for example, invite a guy over for a beer and then shoot him.”
I seem to recall a FR thread on that. The guy was invited over, but then wouldn’t leave. He started getting violent - and the homeowner shot him.
But yeah - USUALLY you can’t shoot a guy that you invited over for a beer. (”Get off my couch”)
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.