Not to disrespect anyone's answers here but it's downright depressing to hear what people have decayed into.
The best advice given is to be a sheep.
I often wish we lived in cowboy days.
But we are forced into that position by laws which require it. And the lawmakers have the guns, the handcuffs, the jails, and the 8-hour-a-day salaried lawyers, to make it stick.
Oddly, the Colorado State Constitution would
seem to allow for protection of property. (Don't know if HI has a similar provision):
Section 3. Inalienable rights. All persons have certain natural, essential and inalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; of acquiring, possessing and protecting property; and of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
And it's sort of reiterated here:
Section 13. Right to bear arms. The right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons.
Now I suppose lawyers could wrangle endlessly over what "protection" means, like they do over "militia" and "infringed," but it would
seem that several of our laws are somewhat... ummmm... "contrary" to those statements of natural, essential and inalienable rights.
Or so it would seem.
But what do I know?
Terry, 230RN