New York ARREST Homeowners for Removing Squatters | Florida Sheriff on How To Save TAX Payers Money

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While New York arrests homeowners for evicting squatters, Florida has a different approach. Florida Sheriff Bob Johnson is encouraging residents to take gun safety courses after a homeowner frightened a would-be burglar by shooting at him - saying the state's residents are "more than welcome" to shoot and kill intruders, and that he would "actually prefer it if you did".

One of the homeowners shot at him. So he continues to run, we finally corner him in a house that he broke into on Tom Sawyer and we cornered him in a bedroom. Although the resident on Tom Sawyer Road fired several shots at the intruder around 5:12 p.m. that day, Johnson said, none of them hit.

That homeowner hasn't come forward to police, but the sheriff said they won't face charges and did the right thing. "I guess they think they did something wrong, which they did not. If someone's breaking into your house, you're more than welcome to shoot them in Santa Rosa County. We prefer that you do, actually".

So, whoever it was, you're not in trouble, come and see us. Johnson also suggested that the unidentified homeowner and other residents attend the department's gun safety classes. We have a gun safety course that we run every other Saturday. If you take that, you'll be a much better shooter, he said. Hopefully you'll save the taxpayers money.

In 2005, Florida became the first state in the nation to enact a "Stand Your Ground" law, which said people could use firearms or other deadly force against home invaders if they reasonably believed they faced an imminent threat of death or serious injury. More than 20 other states followed Florida's lead and enacted similar self-defense laws. In total, 23 states currently have Stand Your Ground laws on the books.

🇺🇲 Stand Your Ground laws
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American law that allows the use of deadly force in self-defence when people feel threatened with death or serious bodily harm, such as in crimes of rape, robbery, arson, kidnapping or murder. This defence can be successfully used to avoid prosecution, even if it turns out that the individual misjudged the seriousness of the threat, making it a highly controversial law.

In 2005, Florida became the first state to enact a stand-your-ground law, and the number of states with stand-your-ground laws has since grown to more than two dozen, including Alabama, Alaska, Iowa, Missouri, Montana and Texas. A further eight states (Illinois, California, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia and Washington) do not have written stand-your-ground laws, but their court systems have set precedents supporting the concept, so legal experts generally consider them to be places where stand-your-ground is legal.

When the law was introduced in Florida, it was based on the so-called Castle Doctrine, which states that people have the right to defend themselves with deadly force when confronted with an intruder in their homes (i.e. their "castles"). The Castle Doctrine has its roots in English common law and was first mentioned in 1604. It originally distinguished between self-defence and the defence of one's home, the latter being considered sacrosanct and inviolable, thereby justifying a response of force without a duty to retreat from a potentially violent situation.