Yes HIS yard. There are two things I am very adamant about. Nobody messes with my home, and nobody messes with my family. In my opinion, the type of people that will threaten the sanctity of an occupied residence and the type of people that threaten your family, without provocation, are the type of people that god never needed to give life to in the first place.
Yard and occupied residence are two entirely different things. In many jurisdictions one may use deadly force against someone who
has entered an
occupied residence unlawfully, or who is
attempting to enter
unlawfully and with force. Sometimes the law extends to the porch or maybe garage, sometimes it doesn't. The concept is that such entry provides reason to believe that imminent danger of death exists. The concept ("a man's home is his castle") goes back almost a thousand years to the English Common Law in terms of the original roots of state laws, and about four thousand in other places.
I am also very defensive of my vehicles, but I understand the difference in the mindset of the car thief and the burglar.
In some places, but not all, the above concept extends to the occupied vehicle--not to protect the car but to provide for the safety of the occupants.
And yes trespassing on an enclosed area, locked or not, especially after dark, would be enough to get you killed where I live, most people are not of the shoot first ask questions later, but you better be running.
And shooting a trespasser is enough to get you charged with murder almost everywhere. There are a few very limited exceptions here and there. In some places, reasonable, but not deadly, force may be employed. In most places the lawful thing to do is to inform a trespasser that he is uninvited and ask him to leave, or to ask the sheriff to do so. Heck, in many places all the sheriff can do is issue a citation. This also goes back hundreds of years.
And since when did pointing a gun at someone qualify as assault?
Varies by jurisdiction, but probably since the advent of the gun.
Perhaps people have been watching too much television. Yeah, Cisco, Gene and Hoppy and Roy and their side-kicks pointed guns at people in the movies and on television every Saturday, but that was fiction.
What were they going to do? Shoot? No, of course not, but the "bad guys' " scripts called for them to raise their hands.
Not
always assault, but often constitutes other crimes. The threshold for producing a weapon varies somewhat from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but in all places, there must be a need. In most, it must involve self defense.
Know your state laws and what they mean.
But your probably the guy who gets molested when someone swears at you.
You lost me.
