you know darned well if you run around with a gun in public in NY you will will very soon be shot dead.
yes you can own them, and hunt with them, but to use them even in your home ? you totally need to justify even in your own home.[/quote]
Sir Anyone who walks around banishing any firearm should be shot for stupidity. All the licenses I have (for pistols, revolvers) say CONCEALED CARRY
The justification for shooting someone entering your home not invited is clear cut, You have to feel your life or others are in immediate danger before using deadly force.
Lethal force in your home /office is a lot more justifiable then going into your back yard to stop a car thief.
NO WE CANNOT SHOOT a car thief as no one's life is in danger, If a thief is leaving your home NO you cannot shoot them as your life and others are not in danger.
The laws are quite explicit in most states when you can shoot someone.
Some of course are a lot more lax then others.
For example if your in a bar and you start a fight and the other person starts beating the hell out of you and you put your hands up and say I GIVE UP and then they continue to beat you you have the right to use lethal force because you gave up thus your no longer a threat to the one you started the fight with.
Also if you happen to kill anyone in your home / office and the bullet is in the back of the persons head you are going to jail.
This is why I strongly suggest anyone considering buying any firearm to learn the local laws to know when lethal force is allowed.
Saving property from a thief NO you cannot shoot them
Coming home ( OR waking up and ) and catching someone in your home and you pull a gun on them and they are about to knife or shoot you yes you can use "that force necessary to protect your life and the life of others" and you shoot for effect...
NYPD "shoot for effect" means once the police officers start shooting they normally used to be trained to shoot until their firearms were empty.
Making sure they are no longer in harms way so they shoot to make sure they or their partners are no longer in danger
The Diallo (Unarmed man) shooting 3 police officers fired 41 shots ( They were found the police innocent of murder) Out of the 41 shots only 19 found their target, not bad 50% shoot as they were under enormous pressure to catch a rapist in the area
Brooklyn recently the police I believe it was 100+ rounds fired and one person died no police officer was found guilty.
Normal citizens are disgusted as the morons of society have more compassion for the criminals then the victims.
A woman is raped and she becomes the object of the defense lawyer as he says did you wear a low cut dress , how much did you drink were you a virgin prior to the alleged attack.
To many people have been crippled or killed by hoodlums and the criminals serve very little time for destroying families.
One of my neighbors in my old neighborhood was mugged when returning from work they hit him with an iron pipe.
After that attack he was left walking with a cain blind in one eye terrible headaches and could never work again.
They caught the bastard who did the mugging and he received 30 months in lock up.
Here an entire family was devastated because the bread winner could no longer work and the criminal goes about his merry way after 30 months.