“You can’t even shoot people that you know for a fact are going to steal from you and in most states, TX excepted, you can’t even shoot people that you catch in the act of stealing from you.”
Colorado has the “Make My Day law”. It says very simply, anyone caught in your home that you think is committing or going to commit a crime may be killed. Period. We also do not have those liberal “You must run for your Life” laws, like liberal States do. Anyone meaning you harm can be met with whatever force necessary to prevent that harm and a person does not have a duty to “retreat”, meaning run away.
Problem is that we have two discussions going on here and some are getting the two mixed in with each other and treating them as the same under the law.
A person in your driveway is not invading your home.
A person stealing your car, lawn mower, etc., is not invading your home.
There have been numerous posts to the effect that you can shoot a person to protect your property. Not so except in a very few states.
The castle law and the stand your ground law has absolutely nothing to do with the protection of your property, other than perhaps arson of an occupied dwelling.
In short, threatening your life, invading your home and protecting your personal property are three totally different subjects with an entire subset of laws dealing with each and each state treats each and all three differently.
Treating all three the same will get you jail time in most states.