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I like that!
Obviously the dog in my avatar is not our main watchdog. He has a tremendous deep bark but is overall more friendly to strangers, especially once they've been accepted, than is our nearly 3-yr-old Australian Shepherd, Rory. Rory is the sweetest guy in the world -- with us, and when I take him out away from the house. If he doesn't recognize my husband at first, though, we have to be careful. He first puffs up and stiffens his stance, and gives a nearly undetectable warning "wufff". Following that he has a horrific bark and curved teeth like a Husky's. Most people will just back off. His bark "that could break glass" is reserved for when he's happy and excited. The Border Collie chimes in when Rory has established that he's defining his territory. I'm an extremely sound sleeper, but they will take care of that should it ever be necessary!
We also have pistols but my husband wants that for protection when he's on the road with the race car. We both practice at the range and have read and observed, and as much as possible, practiced, all the safety regulations. For his CC licence my husband also took a course locally with an accredited teacher.
I wouldn't want to shoot anyone by mistake, ever, but in the middle of the night nobody should be in our home. I mentioned some time ago the incident that taught me I'd have no compunction about defending myself, and by extension, my loved ones.
USC, Texas just passed a similar law to the one you described, I think it went into effect last year.
Well said, Thorn.
The laws you are both referring to are often called Castle Laws, as in a man is king of his castle.
A couple of years ago, Florida extended the castle laws to include any place you could legally carry a firearm. So if you were threatened in a parking lot or someplace, you could defend yourself. Before that you had to try and escape and could only use deadly force if you were unable to escape.
