Your analysis of the common law is correct, but in a great many jurisdictions it has been modified drastically by local laws. Louisiana, Texas, South and North Carolina are cases in point. Also Mississippi has looser criteria for defending one`s "homestead", to include not only the building itself, but also all fenced land around it.
Only in the Northeast, California, and some Midwestern jurisdictions , where firearms are very strictly controlled, or even outlawed, is the defense of property using deadly force prohibited. |
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