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Originally Posted by Heavyhaul
Even if this law would have passed, it still fell under PA laws. If you are a common person, the best that you can do is let your wife and children collect you life insurance. If you ever shot an intruder in your home, it would cost you everthing you own to stay out of jail. If a "resonable person" would enter my home at 3 AM, and my Rottie bites them, I am responsible. Therefore, I can and will, be sued. Firearms will meet the same out come.  |
First, what's being proposed is not a law, it's an ordinance. Second, the wording didn't "mandate" anything, it "recommended". Nothing was obligatory, and there shouldn't be liability on the part of the town, with the exception of something going bad when a citizen tried to get training at the local PD.
And I don't know about you, but I'm not going to lay down and let someone take my life so that all my wife and kids are left with is some cash. If I have to defend myself in civil court I will. And I will win, because there is no such thing as a "reasonable" person entering anyone's home at 3AM.
On the liability issues, however, you're absolutely right. This is why in the upcoming session of the State Assembly we need to push our legislators to resurrect the Castle Doctrine bill that went stale. That bill protected homeowners from lawsuits for defending themselves, their families, and their property.