Originally Posted by StLRedrider

This is a very touching subject with people on both sides of the fence. But some area's are turning out like third world countries and with the economy the way it is. Better safe than sorry. Has anybody here herd of the Castle Doctrine law, yeah thats an interesting one. Check it out.

A Castle Doctrine (also known as a Castle Law or a Defense of Habitation Law) is an American legal concept arising from English Common Law[1] that designates one's place of residence (or, in some states, any place legally occupied, such as one's car or place of work) as a place in which one enjoys protection from illegal trespassing and violent attack. It then goes on to give a person the legal right to use deadly force to defend that place (his/her "castle"), and/or any other innocent persons legally inside it, from violent attack or an intrusion which may lead to violent attack. In a legal context, therefore, use of deadly force which actually results in death may be defended as justifiable homicide under the Castle Doctrine.