Understand that shooting people is generally illegal, and it’s normal to throw the shooter into a cage until a judge sorts out what happened & why.
Seriously: if you fire in self-defense, expect to go to jail. You may be exonerated, but you’ll likely be arrested first.
Except in Texas. They’ll just apologize for taking such a long time to clean up the mess.
Not done that way here.
But this is not Detroit.
“Understand that shooting people is generally illegal, and it’s normal to throw the shooter into a cage until a judge sorts out what happened & why.
Seriously: if you fire in self-defense, expect to go to jail. You may be exonerated, but you’ll likely be arrested first.”
This is mostly correct with the exceptions of locality, state/local law, and LEO policy.
Plenty of accounts our there involving civilian defensive shootings where the defender was not arrested, nor charged. Detroit? Michigan has made some changes, but the motor city is still....hinky?
KYPD
Did you read the article? He’s been charged with several high level felonies.
No shooting people on your own property in self defense is almost always legal and hardly anybody ever goes to jail for it.
If you live in one of the few democratic socialist states of America like Illinois, New York or CA you may have a problem. Unfortunately this poor slob lives in Illinois and worse Detroit.
In GA we have stand your ground and castle doctrine. In metro Atlanta we have daily if not hourly shootings of home intruders. The only people who ever go to jail are the intruders if they live.
And likely bankrupted by liars...I mean, lawyers.