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Where do you get the idea you don't have that right?

It'll come to you when the guy coming out of the window--who may be the owner of the house--perceives YOU as the threat and shoots your ass.

TRH's 100% got this one.

IF it is serious enough to shoot at all, then shoot to kill or do NOT fire at all!! Cops here are severely prohibited from firing "warning shots". if the guy is not coming at you,has not done a crime of personal violence and IS NOT VISIBLY ARMED, you just cannot fire. Menacing,reckless endangerment are all possible. I'd chew his ass and send him on his way. Here in NY, a burglar INSIDE the house, the legal resident has the right to use deadly force. IF the scumbag dives out the window, DO NOT FIRE THAT GUN!!!

What an ignorant mofo. Looky where the SFB (that [bleep] FOR BRAINS) is from. What a surprise. You deserve to live where you live.

Where do you get the idea you don't have that right?

It'll come to you when the guy coming out of the window--who may be the owner of the house--perceives YOU as the threat and shoots your ass.

yeah, that's as crazy as.....well, as bagging up a pistol and putting it in your freaking shower in case you get home-invaded while you're washing your hair.

[quote=The_Real_Hawkeye........ however, seems so low probability as to be absurd, all factors considered.

It was his next door neighbor crawling out of a window. Now I am not the most social butterfly in the world but I do know my neighbors and I can recognize then on the way out of one of their windows at least two out of three times.

Now I am not the best friend of all my neighbors, a couple of them are just not nice people but I am willing to bet a cup of coffee at my house they would all be liking me if I stopped a bad gut crawling out their window.

What the hell was this guy to do? He got robbed, he went looking and saw a stranger crawling out the neighbors window. He may or may not have used wisdom when he fired a warning shot but the bad guy was arrested. That sounds like a lived happily ever after to me.

True, but most states' laws on use of force require the situation to present a direct threat to one's person or a third INNOCENT party before deadly force can be employed outside of one's home. No threat, no shoot. Pretty simple.

The police cannot allow folks to deal with criminals on their own, because that's their only justification for existing, thus they make examples whenever they can of folks who do it.

Go back and read EVERYTHING I said.

He didn't shoot the man. To shoot the man, your gun needs to be pointed at him when you pull the trigger. This is not to advocate warning shots, but there wasn't anything inherently criminal about a warning shot in this case, based on the facts known. Remember, the other guy was a felon caught in the act.

I fired three warning shots tonight and it worked. No life was taken nor blood shed. I even found one of my empties in the dark. I will dig out the spent rounds tomorrow and recast them. If I can fine the other two empties I will only be out three primers and 13.2 grains of powder and for that my wife and daughter think I am their hero.

All 13,000+ posts?

Who or what were you warning?