Not surprised.
My son took the pistol permit class - taught by two retired cops, one state, one local. What they told him is that here in Connecticut, you basically have no right to protect yourself, even if the bad guys come into your house.
Well, that's not totally true. What the law says is that if you're upstairs & hear someone in your livingroom, you can't grab your gun & (as the instructors said) go hunting for the bad guy.
The top of the stairs is the "do not cross line".
Pretty much true. I got my permit here in CT since I figured it's only a matter of time before some demo/socialist manages to change the law. But when I was taking the class it was pretty clear that you're pretty much screwed for life if you ever use it. As a matter of fact, even though it's a license to carry, they made it pretty clear you probably should thing long and hard before doing so since the law was pretty much against you no matter what you did, even if it seemed proper.
Still, my conceiled carry instructer told us to assume that we would go to jail for using our guns. Then he said: this is the decision....would you rather be alive in jail or dead. Put in that perspective, you use deadly force only to protect your life.
Not sure I believe in that, but as an employee of a store I don't believe I'd be using a weapon to protect someone elses property. Still, that pretty much tells the bad guys they can walk into stores and walk out with the goods. Somebody has to use deadly force.....sometime.
I think that's the kind of thing that should be advertised here in Pennsylvania and other northeastern states: "Burglars, thugs, and armed robbers - - head on up to beautiful, rich Connecticut for some easy pickings."
Thanks, Connecticut.