hawaii gun control laws

[Bob Orts]

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Originally posted by DickWilson

And Hawaii is still does not have a castle doctrine and wants one to run away from scum in your own home.

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True, Hawaii does not have an explicit Castle Doctrine. It does have a specific self-defense justification. Case law spells out a clear picture. If you read the actual cases, your see the issue of retreat is proportionate to the threat and self defense. Based on reading some cases, if you exercise force to neutralize a threat and that threat was a perpetrator standing 100 feet away just holding a knife, retreat will be a factor. If that person was 40 feet away coming at you with a knife, retreat will be questionable. If that person were 10 feet away lunging at you with a knife, retreat wouldn't even be a factor. In the cases I read, in each scenario where the threat was immediate and retreat AND escape wasn't a viable option, Hawaii’s self defense provisions prevailed.