DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer. My legal advice is worth exactly what
you paid me for it.

We already have some protection in this regard. If someone breaks
into your house while you are there, you have a legitimate legal
defense if you use deadly force on them. Like most legal issues like
this, you can get a completely different answer depending on whom you
ask. For me, the bottom line is that I'm going to protect my family
and myself, and deal with the lawyers later. You can't shoot someone
for trying to steal your bass boat, though.

--- In ArkansasShooters@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Beatty" <bbeatty@...>
wrote:
>
> Mainly because the lawyers didn't' want it to. Also, the Prosecuting
> Attorneys Assoc. REALLY didn't want it to pass. They had a couple
of P.A.
> there that really stretched the envelope on what would happen if it
passed.
> There were several sessions in the Committee about this.
>
> We got curtilage, which is your yard (IF there is a fence around
it) and
> your porch. The ASP did NOT have a problem with this "castle
doctrine".
>
> bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ArkansasShooters@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:ArkansasShooters@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dallis Miller
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:52 AM
> To: ArkansasShooters@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [ArkansasShooters] FS S&W MDL 27 REVOLVER
>
> This is off topic but can anyone tell me why the castle law didn't
pass in
> Arkansas?
>