A lot of your confusion seems to be that it seems that you (from your comment earlier that the only difference between OK and MT is that in OK it would be justified to shoot an intruder that unlawfully and forcibly entered to steal a TV is that in OK it would be justified when the intruder is leaving) confuse the history and case law of “use of force” subsection in the MT statute with the language for “use of force likely to cause death” subsection of the statute. The plain language clearly requires a reasonable belief of violence or threat of violence for shooting. The MT pattern jury instructions on these issues are attached to illustrate the above point. By not understanding that the statute has separate subsections, you think that complex methods of statutory interpretation are needed where in reality the plain language is sufficiently clear.
You’re trying to make easy to understand language of the statute much more complicated than it needs to be by conflating two different subsections of a statute.
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You still seem to be misunderstanding. Your problem is that you believe you can divine meaning from words without context, which is, again, why you get all legal analysis wrong. You believe it is the only way to do it. Let me help you out, since you seem so fucking determined to be wrong again. Montana allows for lethal force if there is a reasonable expectation of forcible felony. It also defines forcible felony in a way you are trying to make overly small. Luckily for us, it also gives a partial list of forcible felonies in section 45-5-102, which deals with concurrent crimes and homocide:
(b) the person attempts to commit, commits, or is legally accountable for the attempt or commission of robbery, sexual intercourse without consent, arson,
burglary, kidnapping, aggravated kidnapping, felonious escape, assault with a weapon, aggravated assault,
or any other forcible felony and in the course of the forcible felony or flight thereafter, the person or any person legally accountable for the crime causes the death of another human being; or
Mont. Code § 45-5-102
Since you are so good with plain English, you might notice that Burglary is listed in a list of forcible felonies. It is in nearly every other state as well, especially hot prowl burglary. Do you need the plain English definition of burglary, because it means entering an occupied structure in order to commit a crime. Now that you know this, can we please move on from this stupidity?