In SC once the perp is in the house, in the car, or on board the boat, he's fare game, it also extends to your property and out buildings in some cases. There's also some stipulations regarding in or on your business property, even if the perp has a right to be there(employee issues). But as pointed out by my instructor, how do you think the guy feels that shot and killed the person breaking into his lawnmower shed after he found out it was his neighbors 13 year old kid. This was an actual case in Fl(which the sc laws are patterned after). The shooter was within his rights to protect his property against an "unknown threat to his castle domain", no chargers were filed, but it obviously was not the right thing to do. The instructor I had went deep into the ramifications of after the shooting to further educate us in the class, we went over several scenerios based on actual police files and investigations. I talked to the instructor after the class to some extent and he was telling me about some of the people that he had failed in the class(names with held of course). he told me its suprising how many people make the remark "now I can go kill somebody" after completeing the class, guess what, they just failed!
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