{"id":871,"date":"2012-10-19T15:42:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=871"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:36:05","slug":"98-defense-of-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"98. Defense of Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-872\" title=\"SelfDefense03\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense03.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense03-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e0c1a0ba50e0071040521' value='69e0c1a0ba50e0071040521'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e0c1a0ba50e0071040521' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e0c1a0ba50e0071040521' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e0c1a0ba50e0071040521' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 15: It Was Either Him or Me <br \/>Self-Defense pg 3: Mere Property<\/p>\n<p><em>Eddie argues with Arnold, as Rico and his horse sneakily drag the steer away<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>EDDIE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What the hell is your\u00a0<strong>problem,<\/strong> Arnold?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>ARNOLD<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You can&#8217;t use\u00a0<strong>deadly<\/strong> force to prevent someone from stealing mere\u00a0<strong>property!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Eddie and Arnold get in each other&#8217;s faces<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>EDDIE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I can\u00a0<strong>threaten<\/strong> to shoot, can&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>ARNOLD<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In some states, maybe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But you were\u00a0<strong>gonna<\/strong> shoot. (I know you, Arnold.) And you can\u00a0<strong>never<\/strong> kill someone just to stop them from taking your\u00a0<strong>stuff.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Eddie gives in as Arnold climbs onto (the wrong side, artistic license) of his horse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>EDDIE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">All right, I get that mere stuff isn&#8217;t worth taking a life. But what can we do\u00a0<strong>instead?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>ARNOLD<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We can use\u00a0<strong>non-<\/strong>deadly force.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Now mount up. We&#8217;ve got ourselves a rustler to catch.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e0c1a0ba50e0071040521' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-defenses","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}