DoneThis one is a long shot, but it's well worth hitting send. Jim Lucas talked about it in the second hour of The Gun Guy Show. Direct all fire to Courts and Criminal Code Chair Wendy McNamara.
Representative McNamara,
I am writing to encourage your support of HB 1114, Self Defense. Authored by Representatives Lucas, Teshka, and Payne, this bill corrects a longstanding problem that resulted from an Indiana Appeals Court decision.
HB 1114 does not change when reasonable use of force includes deadly force. Likewise, it does not make it legal to point a firearm at someone without the imminent threat of unlawful force. What HB 1114 does do is accurately define deadly force.
Over 20 years ago, the Indiana Appeals Court ruled in Nantz v State that the act of pointing a firearm was deadly force. Inference and possibility (the basis of the Nantz decision) are not the same as deadly force by any stretch of the imagination. HB 1114 simply specifies that pointing a firearm is reasonable force in a self-defense or arrest situation, correcting over 20 years of judicial overreach.
HB 1114 is a very short bill, changing very little in current Indiana Code. Better defining reasonable force will be of great help to Hoosiers in self-defense situations, and afterwards. I’m sure I can count on your support with this important legislation and that you’ll schedule a hearing for this bill.
Thank you,
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