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I've just been lucky, I've been okayed by my neighbors, granted they said it in a mostly joking way, they still said if you see someone you can shoot! It clears things up for me

True, you do make a point, that is castle doctrine, but the shooting a neighbor's robber is an older statute.

CHL/LEO wrote:

For you lawyer types out there: What are the chances of someone bringing civil action, for example for wrongful death? (God forbid.)

Isn't part of the Castle Doctrine that it provides civil immunity for a person who lawfully uses deadly force in any of the circumstances spelled out in the bill?

This most likely wouldn't be castle doctrine, it would be under an old statute that really is hardly ever tested (you can shoot as a third person would if the third person would do the same)