Let me ask you a question. Seriously, why would you shoot someone?
I would only shoot someone if they put myself or my wife/son in immediate danger. Especially in the case of our current living situation, there's no where to go due to the placement of our room inside our top-floor apartment. If they beeline for the master bedroom, I wouldn't have a choice.
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After you answer this question, you've made your question irrelevant. Being "charged" and being "sued" are two completely different things. There are the consequences of staying alive and "possibly" being sued which you have NO control over, or you and/ or your family being dead /seriously injured which you can try to prevent.
In TX and OK, if you're in your home, someone forces their way in/breaks in and you fear for your or your families life, your unlikely to be troubled by litigation. On the other hand, anyone at any time CAN sue you whether the bad guy is alive or dead., . It's an irrelevant possibility. In TX and OK "most" judges will throw out the case. If you're not in your home, could you have escaped instead of using lethal force? Again, why/when would you shoot?
In TX it's legal to shoot a car thief in-the-act in your driveway. There was a case not to far back, where a thief was stealing a large flower pot off of a front porch and was shot. It was deemed legal and no arrest was made.
Where do you draw the line? I'm not sure where I would , except for fear of death/harm to me or mine; then there's no questions in my mind.
I also know, I have absolutely no use for a bean-bag gun.
In other places, there's no telling. California comes to mind. AND again that's not the issue you have any control over.
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Thanks for the information and point of view. I'll have to look into the Colorado setup in more detail, but it looks like Oklahoma will be fine if something should happen while back home.
