Assault with a dangerous weapon charge?

[Ron61]

Maricopa is correct, but with the police more interested in such crimes as seat belts and refusing to come to houses here, it is now up to the home owners and businesses to protect themselves. To use deadly force you have to have an imminent threat to your life or bodily harm and a person driving away is not UNLESS they are shooting at you. Laws vary from state to state and even county to county, but it also depends a great deal on who the investigating officer is. If you shoot a friend of his and you have a knife in your chest that his friend stuck in it, he is still going to try to nail you for murder. The police up here want you to mail in a report if your house is broken into so they don't have to go to the house and make one out. Same for an alarm. Call them and verify that someone is in the house before they will dispatch and then only if they have a unit available. The police protection in this area seems geared more toward the crooks and dopers than the honest citizens and they wonder why everyone carries a gun.

Ron