you may or may not like the castle doctrine.ever asked you to like the law, and the judge doesn't either, but he says you have to follow the law. >> reporter: defense attorney ryan insisted that markus karma was guilty of nothing more than protecting his family. >> this is your house. you defend it within your house as you choose to defend it. >> reporter: by the time the defense rested, those closest to diren dede thought that markus kaarma's lawyers had redefined what this case was about. who diren was kind of got lost in all of this, didn't it? >> uh-huh. >> a lot of the stuff that i heard and read made him sound like some sort of foreigner who just came here to stir the pot and make trouble. >> and commit crimes? >> right. yeah. >> reporter: but to prosecutors andrew paul and jennifer clark, the real criminal in this case was markus kaarma, who was, plain and simple, a murderer. >> the fact is that the defendant was angry and vengeful. he knew that it was a kid coming in his garage. he has his 12-gauge in his hand, and he wa

the castle doctrine since the ith century basically says have a right to defend my home. i do not have to retreat in my house if my house is under attack. ,f you apply commonsense logic a handgun is one of the most common weapons owned in the united states. the court holding is legitimate on its face. everything around it, i think everyone once to throw away and write their own. i think that answers the question. [laughter] brannon, you mentioned mcdonald and incorporation. about the holding in that case and why the plurality decision -- the supreme court decided the bill of rights applied only to the federal government. if you wanted to protect your the stateinst government, you had to look to the state constitution. beginning in the late 19th --tury, the court began to the 14th amend was ratified in 1868, contained the due process clause, the privileges or if the courtause, immediately strangled the privileges or immunities clause in its cradle. the court began to use the due process clause and equal protection clause to protect liberties and rights that were not enumer

to i was looking back and in the old testament the right, in fact, the old testament has the castle doctrine, if a burglar broke into your house at night, you had the right to kill them, you had an obligation to kill -- defend your family. the short answer is we are right and they are wrong. [laughter] >> do you agree with that any gun regulation leads to slippery slope to banning guns and why should individuals have right to possess assault weapons? >> individuals don't have rights to possess assault weapons, fully automatic weapons have been restricted in this country since the 1930's. it's not fair to say that you can't get one, but i can tell you this, that the license that you need, the tax you have to pay and the background check that you have to undergo is far greater than any of the people that are going to work in the trump administration and so -- and then because it's been illegal to manufacture assault weapons in this country for -- since 1960's, a machine gun that you purchase is going to cost you upwards of 20 to $30,000 or maybe $100,000. so some years ago the late frank from