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Originally Posted by fredj338
Too many believe that Castle Doctrine or SYG is cart blanche to start pulling a trigger. There still must be threat of death or extreme bodily injury. A drunk kicking your door in, unarmed, is really breaking & entering. So you still need to prove fear of death or extreme bodily injury. Even then, that only gets you free of criminal charges. What the survivor or their family get in a civil suit is an unknown, but expect it.
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Maybe where you live kicking someone's locked door in is considered acceptable behavior to gain entrance, not in my world. In that case I am more concerned with death or injury than I am with a lawsuit. Someone kicks my door in and comes thru it I'm not going to take the time to ask if they are armed or if there's something I can help them find.