ORIGINAL: RogueAtHeart
How is someone discharging a weapon while trespassing not a threat?
According to his local law he would have been justified in using force. The man fired the rifle. He wasn't prancing through the woods petting bunnies and hugging trees.
I wasn't there, so I don't know what I would have done, and I wouldn't presume to say I'd have been flinging arrows at a guy with a rifle, but to tell the man that was there that he wasn't threatened is rediculous.
He confronted the guy and called the authorities. To call him Rambo, and to say he needs to grow up is asinine.
One I wasnt refering to him as Rambo, that was refering in general to all the people who would have shot the man.Two I never told him to grow up.Dwelling, curtilage,oroccupied motor vehicledoes not equal back forty sitting in a tree stand.Just by someone discharging a weapon on your property does not mean they threatened you. If that weapon was discharged AT you, thats a whole nother story. Let me guess, I suppose it would also be justified to shoot said threat in the back as he ran away from the crazy person shooting AT him?? If or whenyou own your own land, look up the laws of your state and speak with your attorney. Then you will find out that only if, and then not always, someone is physically in your house or other structure on your property do you have the right to use deadly force.
P.S. Confronting an armed man in the woods while basically unarmed is asinine, trying to educate someone to the law and prevent them from going to prison fora good portion of their lifewould be considered being a friend around here. To each his own I guess. Thank god I hunt on private land.
