Regardless of the legalities of the use of force you really need to modify your expression here. No matter what the person that busted down your door did or didn't do you, legally, don't EVER EVER EVER say anything silly like "shoot to kill"
From a legal perspective your objective, when you pull your firearm, is to end/stop the threat ... period ... if you ever say something like "shot to kill" no matter what the circumstances, you are going to end up at very least sitting in front of a jury trying to get out from under a manslaughter bit ....
The best advice that I've ever heard on this topic is basically this .... the police are not your friend no matter whether the officer in front of your is actually your friend or not. Nothing that you say to the police can be used in your defense and your cooperation with the police can't be used in your defense if you are charged with something .... on the other hand they CAN be used against you in court .... so in this situation you tell them that you were afraid for your life so you were forced to stop the threat ... and if they ask you any more questions tell them you would like to talk to a lawyer first.
This guy was at one of the nevada seminars that I had to attend a few years back and he's great to listen to ... and not full of ****
From a legal perspective your objective, when you pull your firearm, is to end/stop the threat ... period ... if you ever say something like "shot to kill" no matter what the circumstances, you are going to end up at very least sitting in front of a jury trying to get out from under a manslaughter bit ....
The best advice that I've ever heard on this topic is basically this .... the police are not your friend no matter whether the officer in front of your is actually your friend or not. Nothing that you say to the police can be used in your defense and your cooperation with the police can't be used in your defense if you are charged with something .... on the other hand they CAN be used against you in court .... so in this situation you tell them that you were afraid for your life so you were forced to stop the threat ... and if they ask you any more questions tell them you would like to talk to a lawyer first.
This guy was at one of the nevada seminars that I had to attend a few years back and he's great to listen to ... and not full of ****
So after getting my CWP, I have tried my best to research all legalities, small or large,on GA gun laws. When you CAN shoot someone, when you CAN'T, when you can draw LEGALLY, when you CAN'T, etc etc..
well my best bud's fiancé works with several gun instructors as an assistant when they do classes and stuff, and she's always filling us in with what she hears and stuff. I don't take much of what she says truthfully, because she is 22 and over exaggerates a lot of things, and well, I want to know the truth MYSELF.
well tonight she tells me and my buddy that she learned today in a class she was sitting in, that you can't legally shoot someone if they bust down your door at home. That you have to have a reason other than "they busted down my door" etc; and that the judge will say "alllll your stuff isn't as important as this persons life" and "WAS there an exit you could have escaped from and called the police?", and you'll go to jail for manslaughter. She says this was on an official NRA PowerPoint program too..
i don't believe this...whatever happened to the Castle Doctrine of GA? "Eminent threat to myself and my family"? My father has been LE for 30 yrs now, and he discussed with me the other day when I was asking him about a similar scenario that "if someone BREAKS into my house, and bust my door down, whether they're there to kill, steal, whatever, I'm going to shoot them dead..not gonna says 'freeze', not gonna shoot them in the leg and wait for the police, no...shoot to kill, because I consider them a threat to myself and my family, whether they were there to harm someone or not..that's all there is to it"
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