Originally Posted by robodog

Personally I would like to limit such extreme power to your place of work and your home so as to deter vigilantism. While I agree that the police are not always the best people to be defending your life I think that the law as written is too broad. The fact that you could under the letter of the law shoot any burglar simply by stating that you had a reasonable belief that they intended to harm any potentially occupants of the building they are entering means to me that the law is too broad. It could probably be cleared up simply be adding an imminent danger clause or something similar but I have found that the people who write these kinds of laws generally pick their words very carefully and such a limiting clause was most likely purposefully left out.