Subj : Re: Anyone out there have any?
To   : Nightfox
From : Derision
Date : Mon Oct 22 2018 21:28:23

  Re: Re: Anyone out there have any?
  By: Nightfox to Lizard King on Mon Oct 22 2018 10:07:19

 > I've always wondered about the possible legal issues of shooting someone,
 > even if it's in defense.  I'd tend to wonder that they could charge you with
 > assault or something.  But then even if you didn't use a gun and instead hit
 > someone with something in defense, I suppose they could potentially consider
 > that assault too..

I remember a case over in New Jersey -- which has some of the strictest gun
laws in the observable universe -- in which somebody broke into someone else's
house and attacked the owner, an elderly man. The elderly man's son grabbed his
dad's gun and defended his dad and himself, and shot the attacker.

I don't remember if the attacker was killed or just injured, but I do know that
the son was arrested for posession and use of a firearm that was not licensed
to him (it was licensed to his father, who was too busy being beaten to use it
at the time).

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