vermontsavant wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
I have actually heard you call 911 if you hear someone breaking into your house or hear someone in your home. Stay hidden and call 911. But some people would rather attack the intruder simply because they are afraid of their stuff getting taken and depending on what state you're in, this is actually legal. If they saw you and started running out of the house, then that law may not apply anymore where you are allowed to attack or shoot them. Instead you get in trouble if you kill them when they were running. But I can't believe people would make fun of someone for calling them because they didn't attack their intruder.
YES.the law in most states says just that.if you think you hear an intruder you should first call police if you can safely get to a phone,then hide.if the intruder realizes your home and flees you may not follow him.
but if your backed into a corner you may defend yourself
This happened back when I was in high school or so in the early 2000's. When I lived in Montana, there was a man in Missoula who woke up in the middle of the night and heard something outside. He looked out the window and caught a teen trying to steal the radio from his car so he screamed at him and the kid took off running, the man grabs a gun and shoots him in the back. He went to prison. I am sure this man was innocent but he didn't know his laws well so he thought he had the right to shoot because he was on his property but the man's life was no way threatened and the kid was running. He should have gone outside and lock his car or call the police. But what would they do? He would have already been gone. I remember hearing in school lot of states allow people to shoot you if you are on their property. That sounds insane because what if someone is standing on your lawn or walks up to your front door to sell something or just to ask something. This kid was on his property so he shot him and got in trouble for it, go figure. Maybe that teacher was full of it or was misinforming the information and wasn't clear in what she was telling her students. But man someone could take that literal and shoot someone and go to prison for it because they were on their property.
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16 Feb 2015, 11:30 am
