Are you guilty if you shoot a criminal without giving him a chance to comply?
105462
You are not guilty as long as you can demonstrate that you have used the minimum necessary force to stop a criminal from causing serious bodily harm or death to another.  The affirmative defense is called "defense of others" and it can, under the conditions I have presented here, be a complete or partial defense to assault, battery, attempted murder, manslaughter, murder and other related such crimes.
988387
oh no you don't. I know better than to commit a crime in public. I may get arrested. nice try.\n\nI am going to take the safe answer as most have and say NO!
745076
Maybe not, but it can turn into a crime when somebody gets shot over something silly.
101476
No. I live in in a rural area of the country where it is commonplace for the farmers and avid deer hunters to have guns. It is common for teen boys to be given a gun and taken out to the woods, dad and son, to learn how to hunt and be responsible with it. Considering how prolific the guns are here yet there is very little crimnal use of them, I don't see a correlation of quantity of guns to use of them in crime. \n\nThat doesn't mean crime is non-existent here. Shortly after moving to this state I was called for jury duty. It was a murder trial. Of interest to this discussion, the man murdered was hunting and had a gun in his hands when the confrontation began. The murders had ready access to guns themselves. Though there were several guns present when the man was murdered, the guns were not used. The man was beaten and kicked to death. You don't need guns to kill. You just need hate mixed with alcohol to dull your self restraint.
442657
I remember something from years ago where he shot someone that he thought was breaking into either his house or his Mom's, and it turned out to be a buddy of his just stopping by for a visit. But I thought he got off because in Texas if someone is on your property without permission, they're pretty much fair game.
1117333
Depends if you had anything to do with described crime.  If you were an innocent bystander, than no.  But if you were helping the criminal out, i.e preparing to drive him away from the scene of a crime before he got caught, then yes, its aiding and abetting a criminal
226145
cooperate within reason. But i'd rather be shot than humilated so i'd probably get shot!!
619873
I say yes.\n\nIf they're making the conscious CHOICE to enter your home, then you have the obvious reciprocal choice to make them pay for theirs.\n\nIf they're committing a crime in the first place, especially such a personal one...shouldn't they be punished for being such an obvious dumb@$$?\n\nNow, generally, I won't shoot to kill...but I'll be damned if I won't shoot to maim someone breaking into my home.
596194
YES!  Absolutely.   Shoot first, ask questions later....okay, be sure you know it's NOT someone you know....\n\nMy shotgun is 5 steps away in the closet...plus I have a baseball bat by the bed....I've been up in the middle of the night with one of them in hand to check on noises....usually nothing though...
985380
If you are not a felon, and the gun is legally registered to you then there a several things that will happen.  First if you shoot someone you will go to jail period.  You will probably be released on bail and have to go to court.  You will most likely be found not guilty of criminal charges unless you are carrying the gun illegaly.  The main problem is that even if you are aquitted of the charges and your gun is returned to you, you will still most likely be sued by the victims family or even the victim in civil court.  You will most likely loose, and have to pay them money even if they committed the crime and not yourself.  I was taught this in a handgun course for carrying a weapon.  I live in TN. and we are allowed to carry a gun if you pay and have no felonies.
974179
Yes\n\nIt would be less likely that an unreasonable person (a criminal element) would attack knowing that the person they are considering attacking may be armed too.
88997
Well it depends if they are armed or not. \nPersonally I would get out my 12 guage load a round and wouldn't hesitate to shoot if necesscary. I would calmy explain to them I am not afraid to use the weapon.
259258
A jerk leveled a shotgun at a child, and I stepped between the two of them. I was enraged! He told me to move, I would not budge. He lowered the shotgun, and tried to explain his actions to me. I pulled my sidearm out, and called the police. I held the jerk at gunpoint until the police arrived. No charges were filed against me, since I acted in self defense of myself, and the child, my son. I could have died, but I will fight to the very death to defend my family, and friends.
172327
They usually offer to drop some charges on you if you will agree to help them. If you don't comply, then they will press the charges. The other thing that could happen is they could make your life hard, depending on how bad they want the person they are asking you to set up. \nI recommend looking out for your own safety. If the person you would be setting up is dangerous, has lots of "friends", and would come after you, I would say no. \nI had a friend in a similar situation. He decided after he was released not to go along with it and all that happened was they pressed charges and he had to pay a bunch of fines. That's better than to risk his safety.
788207
To constitute a criminal act two things are required:\n\n1. Guilty intention \n2. Guilty act \n\nThere is a defense of "accident" in Criminal Law. So if you have done an act accidentally without any guilty intention then you can't be held guilty but nevertheless if the degree of that act is very high then you may be arrested. What you have mentioned is not so serious an act.
196845
If it was a felony then your done. If it was a misdemenor then you have a small chance, but usually they don't grant citizenship to criminals.
1116957
Yes. The person for whom it is issued can't own a firearm for a certain period among other restrictions.