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Originally Posted by REDVAN
If you break into someone's house and are threatening bodily harm, and they defend themselves with deadly force, then the courts will allow the guy who defends himself to go free... or so I hope, but I am not sure about the law. What a messy situation.
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I'm not so sure of the law either, but I think the term is "Excessive Force."
As in, if you could have stopped him and protected yourself without killing him then you're guilty of manslaughter or some such thing.
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