Reply #4: It would also protect people that use non-gun measures to defend themselves.

[krispos42]

More civilized things like clubs and knives, I guess.


Actually, I would think that a resident that defends himself with something besides a gun would need the protection against civil lawsuits more than with a gun. If an intruder is shot, the odds are good he'll simply die, or take wounds to the extremedies. However, if an intruder is clubbed into unconciousness or stabbed with a knife, the odds are much higher of that intruder surviving with severe injuries that may require a lifetime of expensive medical care to treat.

Not to mention that an intruder facing a gun is more likely to retreat and thus avoid any kind of bodily injurty at all. An intruder might get angry that some puny homeowner nervously clutching a 9-iron would dare to try to stop him from stealing, or might decided to turn a robbery into a robbery-and-rape of a woman with a baseball bat.