“I’m a gun owner; Tim Walz is a gun owner,” Harris said.
“I did not know that,” Winfrey replied.
“If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot,” Harris added. “Probably should not have said that. But my staff will deal with that later.”
The article has a video clip. I love the bullshit “probably…” It’s a 100% certainty she spoke with her staff and workshopped the phrasing and presentation of gun stuff. Plus I bet she practiced her lines. No American politician is going to wing it when talking about guns.
Warning shots are not inherently illegal. . It is a myth that they are.
Where there is a credible, criminal, imminent, threat of death or grievous bodily harm, you are allowed to use any level of force, up to and including lethal force, necessary to stop that threat. Your lawyer will be telling the police, the prosecutor, and if necessary, the judge and a jury that you faced such a threat, and you used a degree of force you reasonably believed necessary to stop that threat. Your lawyer will explain that you didn’t think any lesser use of force would have convinced them to stop, and the fact that they did stop is evidence that additional force was not necessary.
The prosecutor could potentially argue the threat wasn’t sufficiently imminent, but that doesn’t mean a jury will believe it.
If you do shoot the attacker, the prosecutor can feasibly argue that a lesser use of force, such as a warning shot, would have convinced the attacker to stop and run, and that your ahooting him was unnecessary. Again, though, that doesn’t mean a jury will believe it.
What you don’t want to do is start telling the police your whole life story. Make your complaint against the attacker, don’t tell them shit about what you did, and lawyer up.