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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

"Break into my house in the middle of the night and it's nightie night."

Milwaukee State Journal readers react to a news story about a Waukesha County  prosecutor delaying making a decision whether to charge a man who shot a home intruder to death.
The incident... will likely prompt more debate about the status of Wisconsin's self-defense law and efforts to broaden it to include the so-called castle doctrine.
Judging from the debate in the comments, the people favor the pending bill, which "would extend a presumption of reasonableness to anyone using deadly force against people unlawfully in their residence, whether they were armed or threatening or not."

I favor the bill myself, because people who are considering breaking into a house shouldn't have a complicated set of risk/benefit factors to weigh. It should be really clear.

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