Castle Doctrine Essay

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Jamarco Edwards April 25, 2012 Proposal Essay on the “Castle Doctrine” What is castle doctrine? Castle doctrine is the law that provides a person to the right to use deadly force to protect his property on his or her ground instead of retreating, against an intruder who wants to carry out armed robbery or to inflict serious physical harm upon the person in the property. This legal rule is very interesting as it gives a person exclusive dominion and control over what goes inside his house except of felony, murder, drug trafficking, domestic abuse, and rape. This law allows a person in the house to defend himself and his household against anyone who intends to commit crimes or to commit burglary. Under this rule, a man’s home is his castle and he has the right to defend it against any intruders. This is a fair and very noble law because it recognizes the legitimate right of the man in the in house. As someone says “there is no safe place like home.” Many of us assume that our home is our comfort zone. It is our safe zone, and it is our place retreat when everything around us in the work place or in school or anywhere is not going well with us. It is in our hour that we fully entrust our safety, our family, our investments, and everything that we consider valuable to us. In other words, our house is like a bank that is being guarded twenty four hours by armed guards who are ready to pull the trigger to any intruder who intends to steal or to stage a hold up. In this context, the guards are licensed to kill criminals with the purpose of staging criminal activities. With out that blanket authority, they could never carryout their duty effectively as criminals will not pay any respect to them and banks will not be able to protect the people’s money deposited by their customers. The house as I

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