Bait and switch...

That stuff hitting your shoes is not rainwater...

HOUSE BILL 1802
By Capley
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to the defense of property.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-11-614, is amended by deleting subsection (c) and substituting instead the following:
(c)
(1) Except as provided in subdivision (c)(2), a person is justified in using deadly force against another:
(A) If the person would be justified in using force against another under subsection (a) or (b);
(B) When and to the degree the person reasonably believes deadly force is immediately necessary to prevent or terminate the other’s actual or attempted trespass; arson; damage to property, including damage to livestock; burglary; theft; robbery; or aggravated cruelty to animals; and
(C) The person reasonably believes:
(i) The property cannot be protected or the other’s actions terminated by any other means; or
(ii) The use of force other than deadly force to protect or terminate the other’s actions would expose the person or a third person to a risk of death or serious bodily injury.
(2) A person is not justified in using deadly force against another individual under this section if the individual is facing away from the person.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.

Someone (who knows which member of the Establishment Republicans) authored an amendment that guts the bill, (says Farmer on the amendment, which would be SOP, he seems never to have met a restorative rights to the People bill to he liked). https://capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Amend/HA1054.pdf

These things appear magically behind a stone wall of non-sunlight (the General Assembly voted itself exclusion from the People’s view of its actions years ago), so that there is no single person to fault for such shenanigans. Rather, they maintain plausible deniability on the part of all, appears to be the watchword of the day, week, or session .

The amendment reverts to the old standard of “having to be in fear of serious bodily injury or death” and adds that one must live on the property to avail themselves of this poorly written attempt—effectively rendering the sponsor’s bill irrelevant and of no consequence.

Our Tennessee legislature at work: denying you the ability to protect your property, having self-granted “qualified immunity” from being responsible for that product. Just as they want no part of being lawfully responsible for protecting your life, they also refuse to allow your Second Amendment right to bear all arms commonly used by the people for all lawful purposes.

Call your Senators and demand they hold the line and make this legislation go to Conference Committee, the original intent of the House Sponsor needs to be maintained.