Originally Posted By: Evo
if it were so easy, it would have happened...

breaking and entering is not an excuse for deadly force, your life must be endangered, and some chick crawling through a window is hardly a threat to your life at that point in time...

dont believe me?

if anyone ever breaks into your house, and is say all the way across the house, shoot them, and tell me what happens next...

if they have a gun, you will get off, if they have some of your bunk weed and a TV remote, you are going to prison...


Evo, if you worked half as hard at a job as you do at being a dipsh!t, you might actually achieve something with your life. Breaking and entering the House Chamber in the US Capitol with a mob of hundreds or thousdands intent on stopping the lawful electoral process is more likely than not to be met with deadly force. I think the real miracle is that so few were injured and killed that day.

As for B&E into private homes, the Castle Doctrine applies in WA state. If you are in danger for your life or have reasonable belief that your life or the lives of other residents are in danger, you may exercise lethal force to stop the threat, bunk weed and TV remotes notwithstanding. It's not always possible to know if the perp has a gun or other weapon, and fractions of seconds count.