New Nevada Bill Allows Home Invaders to Sue You if You Shoot Them
A man’s home is his castle, or so the saying goes. And people should be able to protect their homes - including our most precious asset, our families - against intruders without fear of a lawsuit.
Some Nevada politicians are trying to change that. They think that you should be financially liable for any injuries they sustain when you defend yourself -- even in your home.
Does that sound convoluted? It is. And, it’s ridiculous. If someone is invading your home, the last thing you should be thinking about is being sued if you use force to defend yourself or your family.
Senate Bill 254 removes the provision in Nevada law protecting people from civil liability when they justifiably use potentially deadly force against a person who is injured or killed while invading their home.
We need YOU to tell them, “I have a right to defend myself against criminals!”
Senators, here’s a thought: Actions have consequences. When a criminal decides to invade someone else’s property, they just might get hurt or killed as a result - and the criminal’s the only one to blame.
Contact your legislators today and tell them you oppose this attempt to value the rights of criminals over the rights of law abiding gun owners.
https://www.firearmspolicy.org/urgent_new_nevada_bill_allows_home_invaders_to_sue_you_if_you_shoot_them
Nevada Bill Would Allow Criminals To Sue Their Victims
Yep, you read that right. Nevada politicians want to allow criminals, shot in the act of robbing a home, to sue whoever shot them.
WTF? Senate Bill HB254 is working its way through the Nevada political machine. If passed, the bill will allow criminals … or their surviving family members … shot in the act of robbing a home to sue the homeowner or resident who shoots them.
Nevada law currently protects people in cases of “justifiable homicide” which is defined as:
the killing of a human being in necessary self-defense, or in defense of an occupied habitation, an occupied motor vehicle or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors to commit a crime of violence, or against any person or persons who manifestly intend and endeavor, in a violent, riotous, tumultuous or surreptitious manner, to enter the occupied habitation or occupied motor vehicle, of another for the purpose of assaulting or offering personal violence to any person dwelling or being therein.
That wouldn’t change but, the homeowner could wind up losing everything they have in a civil lawsuit. What do you think about this?
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Accused killers go free as Supreme Court tackles ‘complacency’ in criminal justice system
It’s an alarming thing when an accused killer walks away free because the justice system couldn’t try him in time.
But it’s now happened in Canada for a third time, with Quebec Superior Court Judge Alexandre Boucher last week staying a charge of second-degree murder against Sivaloganathan Thanabalasingham, a Quebec first.
He was charged in the Aug. 11, 2012, slaying of his young wife, Anuja Baskaran, found in her Montreal home that day with her throat slit.
The delay from arrest to trial was almost five years, all of which Thanabalasingham spent in custody as a presumptively innocent man.
The 31-year-old, who is from Sri Lanka, was scheduled to have a hearing at the Immigration and Refugee Board Monday afternoon — he’s now facing deportation because of an earlier criminal record.
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchford-accused-killers-go-free-as-supreme-court-tackles-complacency-in-criminal-justice-system
