Are you cornered? Listen, things get a lot more complicated than “He was coming at me so I shot him.”
Like I mentioned before: What if he was deaf or mentally incapable of understanding your threat?
In the end it’s all up to the DA to prosecute, but you bet your ass that the victims family will take you for all your worth, regardless.
has to be inside your house and he has to be commiting a crime
^ He never asked about civil liability. Anyone can sue anyone for almost anything in civil court, especially in a state full of douchebags like NY. If you really did meet the legal grounds for self defense their civil suit probably won’t go anywhere, but will still cost you big bucks defending it.
If someone comes through your door with the clear intention of doing you PHYSICAL harm it’s a different situation. You cannot and should not shoot someone for walking up your driveway while your brandishing a weapon.
Not just a crime. A felony.
lol that would be just dumb, but if ppl like justcarter can be bread, i dont put it past anyone.
With the given situation if you are the one that introduces a deadly weapon to the confrontation, more than likely you will be prosecuted in the end. It may not be right, but what you would be expected to do is go inside the house, lock the door and contact the police. In the end it all would come down to what the local district attorney wants to do.
Nope, fire away
You should have just shot him so we have a final decision on this matter.
It would be an interesting case as he originally described it though, based on the requirement to retreat and the fact that you were retreating while driving to your house with the guy chasing you.
I say go do it so I can follow this one through the courts. 
LOL it would be interesting. I have to sit in on some trials for my civ pro class soon and murders are always more fun.
just adding a bit more details that would make or break the case,
The guy has been tailgating and driving erratically behind me. He is following me with in a car length as I pull into my separate garage, which my rifles are located.
I pull the car into the garage and he pulls his truck up to the garage, and blocks me in.
He gets out of his truck and is pretty haggard looking (summing up that he might do something crazy)
He is coming towards me pretty quicky, I have plenty of shit in my garage that could be used as a weapon against me, i’m not sure if this guy is going to attack so that is when i grab the rifle.
I then tell him to step back, he keeps coming at me, i point the gun at him, and he turns around, but calls the police on me…will I be arrested for this?
Or…lets say he keeps coming towards me and, I fire and injure him, and then call the police…
Will I be arrested?
What are you, some kind of nut that want to shoot somebody?
Whats with all this hypothetical bs…
Here I can answer all these questions…
You don’t make enough money to get out of legal issues if any of this happened…
you can only use equal or lesser force to defend yourself. and you can bet you will be in trouble if you shoot someone, you will seriously have to prove your case that you were in danger of being killed. and firing at him at all is considered attempted homicide.
he prob walked away because he realized how much of a pussy you were pointing a .22 at him…man up
What if this guy was bigger than I was…if we were to get in a fight, i wouldn’t able to defend myself because he has a greater force.
:mamoru:
and NO i don’t want to shoot anyone…
Something LIKE this happened to me the other day and I was just weighing out the possible outcomes and it made me think about defense laws…
i dont wanna shoot anyone either but it i had to or it came down to it you better believe theres gonna be a huge hole in his chest or face.
If he was coming at you and you shot him in the knee, leg, etc etc… id imagine youd be fine if he was making you fear for your life.
If he was armed and you killed him, I’d imagine you’d have a case…
if you pulled a gun on him, he ran away, you shot him in the back. YOUD GO TO JAIL.
this isnt rocket science.
OG’s wit .22’s HOLLA