Hmmm...interesting. Here in MO your car is included in the Castle Doctrine. You have a right to protect your property and your home. Your car is considered also "your home".If you go to the FAQ section of the Florida Concealed Carry website, exactly this type of situation is addressed. It would have been illegal for you to brandish your firearm to detain the person and you would likely have been arrested. You cannot act as a LEO except to prevent a situation where physical harm, loss of life, rape or other serious potentially lethal crime is being committed.
Hmmm...interesting. Here in MO your car is included in the Castle Doctrine. You have a right to protect your property and your home. Your car is considered also "your home".
With my small stature, I know I can easily be overpowered by a person bigger (or younger) than I am. That is why I have a gun. Outside of my house, knowing that someone is inside going through my property, because of the way our subdivision is set up here, if no one is home in our house, my husband and I would have gotten a call from some (or a) neighbour that someone is inside our house and that they had called the police -- way before I get home. In my car it will be a different matter altogether. It will depend on whether I am alone going to my car or I have someone with me...which is almost always, I have someone with me when I go out. Besides wherever I go shopping, my dog will be left in my car. If I leave my dog home to go somewhere, I will never hear the end of it for the rest of my natural life. My dog, my wallet, camera, cellphone and my gun -- automatically goes with me when I go out of the house...even in my fenced backyard.Florida is the same, but I have a question.. If you are outside your home, and you discover someone is in your house, do you go in after them, or call 911 and be a good witness (same senario, under castle doctrine, but your home instead of a car)
Above is your answer HootmonSccy. Need I say more? Many thanks Grump.This is in the documents that you get with your license in FL.
Q. When can I use my handgun to protect myself?
A. Florida law justifies use of deadly force when you are:
Trying to protect yourself or another person from death or serious bodily harm;
Trying to prevent a forcible felony, such as rape, robbery, burglary or kidnapping.
I added the emphasis on burglary.
Gramps - As Phillip Gain said in his post, Are you really going to risk your life over "Stuff"??Above is your answer HootmonSccy. Need I say more? Many thanks Grump.
This is in the documents that you get with your license in FL.
Q. When can I use my handgun to protect myself?
A. Florida law justifies use of deadly force when you are:
Trying to protect yourself or another person from death or serious bodily harm;
Trying to prevent a forcible felony, such as rape, robbery, burglary or kidnapping.
I added the emphasis on burglary.
You should have added the emphasis on "Forcible".This is in the documents that you get with your license in FL.
Q. When can I use my handgun to protect myself?
A. Florida law justifies use of deadly force when you are:
Trying to protect yourself or another person from death or serious bodily harm;
Trying to prevent a forcible felony, such as rape, robbery, burglary or kidnapping.
I added the emphasis on burglary.
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