This is a complete fantasy. You don’t even have to ensure that they are armed they represent a fatal threat by breaking into your house with you in it you would have every right to shoot them immediately
No, it isn’t. Self defense claims in New York are very specific.When I looked into getting a gun when I lived in Bed-Stuy I concluded after talking to a buddy at the ACLU that it was pointless because even if someone broke into my house with a gun it wasn’t self defense until they shot at me first.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 3 days ago
secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The logical explanation is you don’t know the law correctly because your “friend” at the ACLU realized a wild bisexual hothead such as yourself with a gun was a recipe for disaster, understandably. So this person lied, made up a litany of non-existant jurisprudence, and the world is safer and sexier as a result. This does not mean that actual claims of self-dence go away.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Most of us don’t live in NY
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Not being able to claim self defense when the other party is unarmed is very common though
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
That’s fine. It’s almost like the law has nuance.
Go read that NY law I posted to your above comment and tell me that an armed person using deadly force against an unarmed person is always illegal in New York.
secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And you know this because…?
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
NY is way too small to hold 8.2 billion people.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
And you’re just flat out incorrect
www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/35.20