From the article;
The measure was approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Republican Governor Mitch Daniels in March. It amended a 2006 so-called Castle Doctrine bill that allows deadly force to stop illegal entry into a home or car.
The law describes the ability to use force to “protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force.”
For you guys, (or gals) that would mean just about anything, wouldn't it? For a LOT of gangstas and wannabes it would, I promise you that.
Probably a LOT of forced home invasions of cars, huh? You know, jaws of life attacks, flash bangs in the back seat, that kinda thing?
Stupid amendment that will get people killed.
>> For you guys, (or gals) that would mean just about anything, wouldn’t it?
For me, since I **KNOW** I’m not a lawbreaker, I would assume any forced (and therefore unlawful) entry into my car or house was a crime against me, and blow away the perp, if I was able. Without worrying about if the perp was a fake cop, or a real but incompetent or evil one.
So — if you’re a cop, you had better approach me by ringing my damn doorbell — alone, not a herd of you — WAITING until I ANSWER the door, and then politely show me your BADGE and your SEARCH WARRANT.
What is so hard for you to understand about that concept? What is it about that concept that violates the precepts of living under the protection of a bill of rights?
I get that there are criminals out there, and that it may be necessary for the police to occasionally break a door down to get them. But — DON’T F__K UP AND BREAK **MY** DOOR DOWN, because I know I am NOT one of them. If you do break my door down, and I am able, I will protect myself, and my property, by SHOOTING TO KILL.
Get it? It’s just THAT simple. Under the Indiana law, the burden not to f__k up and forcibly enter the wrong dwelling now rests on the POLICE. The reward for not f__king up is the police stay alive and uninjured. The penalty for f__king up is to risk getting killed. As it SHOULD be. Instead of on the innocent, law-abiding citizen to guess how to respond to a forcible entry.