Should a US Citizen have the right to protect property by use of deadly force?

Yes. I’ll also allow using deadly force to remove trespassers from your property after repeated warnings.

Yes, that property could very well be what earns your living for all the thief knows.

Hard to say but here’s my thoughts on the Rittenhouse situation. If the police hadn’t been ordered to stand down in Kenosha, then that property wouldn’t have needed protecting by non law enforcement US citizens. Kyle’s hand was forced to protect his community because the government failed to uphold their duty.

Of course. We will certainly have the leftist twats in here saying, "so you value your property more than the lives of you fellow man" but it would actually be the one stealing or destroying someone else's property that is doing that, wouldn't it?

Yes.

It’s irrelevant to the Rittenhouse case.

But still, yes.

yes. and i wish i had more neighbors like joe horn.

Only one down vote! I had no idea we had so many anarchists on board. I'll have to disagree and downvote.

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A person has the right to defend themselves and their property. It's been an inalienable right since the founding of this country.

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Yep! “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” was originally “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property”.

I know there was a SC case that established you can’t use deadly force when no life is threatened. The case involved a guy who set up a gun with a string to pull the trigger when his front door was opened on a remote property.

An argument commonly brought against this is "just use your insurance." Why should I have to pay a deductible to get things back that had no business being taken in the first place? Not to mention the risk of insurance being increased or dropped.