If someone tries to get into your car, can you hold them at gunpoint?

If your car is in your home then you can shoot them.
The more likely scenario in La. is if you live in your car..you can shoot them.

Why not just beat the shite out of them instead?

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1. The car is parked and nobody is inside.

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You can't do anything with a gun.

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2. The car is stopped and you are inside.

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This one is tricky

my opinion is that if they enter your car and you have a firearm you are in a position to pull that firearm. you would then need to order them out and give them the ability to leave the situation.

if in this process they do something you consider a threat to your life that you feel you can back up in court, you MAY be in a position to fire your weapon.

shoot first ask questions later

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In the big picture sense, yes go for it. What are they going to do? Go to the police and tell them that they got a gun pulled on them while they were trying to steal a car?

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No...




They're going to die.

Thought it was if they were breaking into your car, say in your driveway, then you cannot shoot them. They must be threating your life

This isn't foreign policy. It's my car and we aren't in negotiations for my life. You're going away, and I mean like, no, not like on vacation, but you're going away, like really going away. Like this morning you were here and this evening you're not. That kind of going away.

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In either situation - better to beg forgiveness than permission

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asking forgiveness in this situation is likely a LOT of time in jail.

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i really do not understand some of these posts. You can NOT use deadly force on someone if there is no threat to your life

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Maybe I misread the intent, but I'll tell you this. If I'm in the car and someone is trying to get in my car as if to steal it or do me harm, then bye.

Now, if you're breaking into my car and I'm in my house and come out and catch you and you run, then I can certainly detain you until the police arrive if someone makes the call, but I also run the risk of getting stabbed or shot myself.

If I walk outside and catch someone in my car and they for whatever reason decide to rush me and I'm armed, then bang bang, bang...