Dust_Devil
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I live in a 2nd floor condo that has only one flight of stairs leading up to it. Now I was thinking what if I arrived home one night and caught a burglar trying to break into my front door or even had already broken into my home and is now exiting with stolen goods and here I am at the bottom of the stairwell looking up at the burglar who is staring down at me and the only way he can escape is down the stairwell and past me.
Now if he is not showing that he is armed and no proof that he is a direct threat to my life, what are the legal measurements I can take from preventing someone from breaking into my home or leaving with stolen property while we are both outside my home and to protect myself and prevent this burglar from just walking down the stairwell and just pass me up and getting away.
I don't think telling a burglar to stop where he is while I call the police is something the burglar is going to cooperate with and I may not be physically able to obtain the burglar.
Since there is no other route of escape without first coming face to face with me as he must pass me at the stairwell and not know what the burglar may do and have the right not to run away like a coward from my own home can I hold a gun on the burglar right outside my home
and/or threaten to shoot him, but never actually using deadly force, if he doesn’t stay where he is in order to capture him while then calling the police or do I have to act like a moron and let the burglar either keep breaking into my condo or just come out of my condo with stolen property and down the stairwell past me and escape while I'm there with a weapon and just have to allow this criminal just walk past me with a smile because he didn’t threaten my life in order for me to take my gun out?
Now if he is not showing that he is armed and no proof that he is a direct threat to my life, what are the legal measurements I can take from preventing someone from breaking into my home or leaving with stolen property while we are both outside my home and to protect myself and prevent this burglar from just walking down the stairwell and just pass me up and getting away.
I don't think telling a burglar to stop where he is while I call the police is something the burglar is going to cooperate with and I may not be physically able to obtain the burglar.
Since there is no other route of escape without first coming face to face with me as he must pass me at the stairwell and not know what the burglar may do and have the right not to run away like a coward from my own home can I hold a gun on the burglar right outside my home
and/or threaten to shoot him, but never actually using deadly force, if he doesn’t stay where he is in order to capture him while then calling the police or do I have to act like a moron and let the burglar either keep breaking into my condo or just come out of my condo with stolen property and down the stairwell past me and escape while I'm there with a weapon and just have to allow this criminal just walk past me with a smile because he didn’t threaten my life in order for me to take my gun out?