Some months back, I made up a couple of small signs and posted them on the insides of my cottage's front and back windows (the only ones large enough for an average-size person to get through).
The signs are 4"x5", and read as follows:
WARNING: Occupants are armed and trained in the defensive use of firearms. Illegal entry will be met with appropriate force.
Some friends, non-lawyer and non-gun types, have warned me that, should I ever have to use lethal force, I'll be painted by the prosecution as a psycho who's just looking for an excuse to kill someone, based on those signs.
Personally, I don't think a jury would buy that argument, but I'd like some other opinions.
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How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day?
I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
--Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"
The signs are 4"x5", and read as follows:
WARNING: Occupants are armed and trained in the defensive use of firearms. Illegal entry will be met with appropriate force.
Some friends, non-lawyer and non-gun types, have warned me that, should I ever have to use lethal force, I'll be painted by the prosecution as a psycho who's just looking for an excuse to kill someone, based on those signs.
Personally, I don't think a jury would buy that argument, but I'd like some other opinions.
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How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day?
I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
--Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"