I am perfectly fine shooting someone trying to break into my house through a door or window or wall. As soon as I determine that the person's intent is to break into my house, I'm well within my God given (and legal) rights to take the appropriate defensive action...and I'll exercise that right to protect my family. Honestly, I probably won't even give a holler as a warning or to "make sure" of their intent.A-R wrote:Please review firearm rule #4 and tell me if you still believe in firing blindly through a door.LSUTiger wrote:I know Crazy Joe's intentions were misguided and I don't agree with his agenda but the advice is good, I think, at least to the extent of shooting someone through the door who is actively trying to break into your home goes. Regardless of what you use.
I had an opportunity to talk to at the time Assist. Sheriff Kenneth Craig Brady of FT.Bend county when we had a rash of burglaries in our neighborhood.
He said if someone was trying to breakin it was legal to shoot them through the door, you didnt have to wait until he got in and put yourself at risk.
If those who are just getting onboard with the whole guns and freedom movement invest in shotguns for HD then good but I hope they dont buy the Crazy Joe and O arguments against AR's and AK's. Everyone needs (Freedom rifle) one now more than ever.
But if the demand/price of freedom rifles was offset the demand for shotguns then I'd be the first to take advantage of that.
It is not an absolute rule that you have to have an unobstructed visual line of site to your target in order to make a decision to shoot. If that were the case, then as soon as a BG took cover behind a box, my hands would be tied and I could not shoot, right? If the BG hides behind a box, my level of confidence in my target behind the obstruction is high enough for me to proceed. This falls under the ethical "reasonable person" defense. If a reasonable person would have come to your same conclusion (that whoever was behind your back door was trying to break in), then your legal actions based on that conclusion are all good.