Carjackers beware! New bill in Tennessee allows "deadly force" against attackers

[Manic]

NASHVILLE -- Spurred by violent crime in Memphis and elsewhere, Tennessee legislators have filed several bills to expand the legal rights of people to use deadly force when threatened by would-be attackers.
One would specifically allow people in motor vehicles to kill or "cause serious bodily injury" to attackers -- both inside or outside the vehicle -- who they believe are threatening to murder, rape, kidnap, rob or carjack the car's occupants.


http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/midsouth_news/article/0,1426,MCA_1497_5349925,00.html

 

[Brat]

good for them.

 

[VA VIPERAM]

NASHVILLE -- Spurred by violent crime in Memphis and elsewhere, Tennessee legislators have filed several bills to expand the legal rights of people to use deadly force when threatened by would-be attackers.
One would specifically allow people in motor vehicles to kill or "cause serious bodily injury" to attackers -- both inside or outside the vehicle -- who they believe are threatening to murder, rape, kidnap, rob or carjack the car's occupants.


http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/midsouth_news/article/0,1426,MCA_1497_5349925,00.html

Woops, I thought they already had that! :dontknow:
I lived there for nine years and when I got my concealed carry permit, they said it was justified if I was in fear of my life or feared for the life of a third party.
They did say though, that it is much easier to prove "fear of life" if you are a woman or a man of small stature, unless the offender is armed with a gun. Since I am 6' 3", if he only had a knife while I had a gun, I would have to prove that I had no way to escape.

 

[Azmal]

Hehehe.... lucky me : ) but then I'm in the same boat as Keith there being pretty big 6'3" @290 but really though I live in the middle of nowhere TN so most likely nothing will happen to my truck... hopefully lol