Everyone has the right to defend their property with force.
No, you don't get to shoot people for a simple trespass onto your land. That isn't legal anywhere. The laws that allow you to shoot people are all limited to things like someone breaking into an occupied dwelling.
Laws and rights are different things. And if someone is trespassing wilfully, and doesn't leave when prompted, they have forfeited their rights in violating someone else's.
And if someone is trespassing wilfully, and doesn't leave when prompted, they have forfeited their rights in violating someone else's.
Maybe in your mind they have, but not under American law. You're free to argue that a judge ought to apply your personal opinion instead of the law, but I doubt you will be successful.
No, you don't get to shoot people for a simple trespass onto your land. That isn't legal anywhere. The laws that allow you to shoot people are all limited to things like someone breaking into an occupied dwelling.
Laws and rights are different things. And if someone is trespassing wilfully, and doesn't leave when prompted, they have forfeited their rights in violating someone else's.
Maybe in your mind they have, but not under American law. You're free to argue that a judge ought to apply your personal opinion instead of the law, but I doubt you will be successful.