The following is a video transcript.
Let’s talk about your rights to defend your property in North Carolina. Imagine you hear a noise and look out your window to see a hooded figure at your car, just before he breaks your driver’s side window. What are the laws of defending your property when a person is breaking into your car on your own property?
Deadly Force
The first thing to remember in North Carolina is that you may never use deadly force to protect property. That means in the situation we just described, you may not use deadly force to prevent someone from breaking into your car. Deadly force is force that is likely to kill someone or cause serious bodily harm (like if you shoot someone).
Force
You may, however, use reasonable non-deadly force against another to stop them from taking your property. That means you could tackle, or grab, or punch someone to keep them from stealing your property.
You’re also justified to use force to recover property immediately after it is stolen. Often termed “one fresh pursuit,” this means you may chase down someone who has just broken into your car and taken something and use non-deadly efforts to recover your property. Obviously, in either situation, if you confront a car thief and they pull a weapon on you, then you may use deadly force to protect yourself if you have a reasonable belief you are facing death or serious bodily harm. If someone is attempting to break into your car on your property, you cannot use deadly force, but you can use non-deadly force to prevent them from breaking in, or to catch them fleeing with your property.
For more information about your legal rights to protect your property, call U.S. LawShield and ask to speak to an Independent Program Attorney.
So you must depend on your ability to fight to protect your property? That is just wrong. Most women thus have no right to protect their property from liberal thugs.
What makes you think a thug is liberal???…Man i swear some of you people are the most dumbfounded people on the planet
As the old staid and true adage goes, “All thugs are liberals/leftists, but not all liberals/leftists are thugs.” Comprende?
You should probably never own a gun. Every. Liberal Thugs?
So a bad guy can steal a womens car right in front of them and their only defense is to fight with bare hands? The women in our country are doomed. This is pathetic.
I had the same thought… Not to mention elderly and disabled people.
If you catch some one trying to steal your car and you use a stun gun on them, does that count as using deadly force? Or non deadly force? Because, as a woman, that is what I would do.
This is an unjust law, especially for elderly people & especially women and/or people with disabilities who have no chance of securing personal property against thieves or thugs in progress of criminal activity nor protecting themselves.
If you vote democrat, then it’s your fault.
Better make sure you got your boxing gloves lol. You go to tackle them or grab them then they pull a knife or gun an kill you the owner!
In other words in N.C. with a lib gov if someone wants to burn your home down you just have to let them . My big ass I do !
Yes, but this article was about you looking out a window, presumably from your house and someone is about to break a truck window. You shoot that person and you had better hope they live and run away because you can’t take a life over property.
If you are a woman or an old person, you call the police and safely try to get identification secured like a picture of the person, their vehicle or a license plate.
That’s why you equip yourself with what they call a throw away. Shoot that bastard, throw the throw away down and swear he pulled it on you. Meet force with force…
You sound like a cop lmao
These kinds of laws are the reason it is so profitable to make a living as a criminal. We need the ability to defend our livelihood and discourage this behavior.
I’m a disabled veteran with major spinal limitations. I have made sacrifices in my life in defense of this country and will do the same in defense of my personal property. I am licensed to carry a concealed weapon and in the event I am in a physical battle, there will be at least one deadly weapon involved. If I feel the aggressor is attempting to gain control of my weapon or if feel I may be incapacitated then I will not hesitate to neutralize the treat to me. I hope everyone who is ever in this situation only thinks of their survival and not the liberals agenda to control them.
I always thought in the state of NC, as long as a intruder was inside your house, you could then bear arms…If I’m understanding this correctly..A intruder can enter your house & you still can’t bear arms? Is that correct anyone?
Did this article cover breaking and entering?
No NC is a stand your ground state. It also has a “bubble” if you will that reasonably covers a “bubble” around your house. So if you see someone outside your window or actively broken into your home, you have every right to ASSUME they are going to hurt or kill you, the assumption lies within those boundaries. And you CAN and SHOULD use deadly force. Caveats being if the person is retreating, or the person gives up (ie angle of shots). It’s common sense. If the guy gives up, it’s murder. If the guy is still standing in your house, unload until he is “reasonably no longer a threat”.
I am a member of the above named organization. I’m also aware of where to draw the line when it comes to protecting my property.
Laws are written for the most part by lawyers…for lawyers and a good lawyer can find grey areas in anything. If I approach someone to tell them to get off my property my expectation is that there is going to be a confrontation. Am I prepared for that possibility? Absolutely. I’m to old to go fight and to slow to run away so someone is gonna have a permanent mark for what remainder of life they have.
Self preservation is the number rule in life and if someone is willing to try forced entry into a truck while knowing people are there then you know what to expect in a confrontation.
Thanks for being a member!
Yes, but this article was about you looking out a window, presumably from your house and someone is about to break a truck window. You shoot that person and you had better hope they live and run away because you can’t take a life over property.
If you are a woman or an old person, you call the police and safely try to get identification secured like a picture of the person, their vehicle or a license plate.
I legitimately had a question and for some reason it was deleted? I am a woman and I am wondering if I see someone break into my car.. is it considered deadly force or non-deadly force if I use a stun gun on them??