actually, you made the laws in my house comment, i just agreed with it. who lays down the rules in your gaff? your next door neighbour?
It sounds like those who don't care for this plan need to grow a set of balls. It's a dog eat dog world, people die - get over it. You think they do any differently in the army? You think they've done any differently over thousands of years? The cost of life hasn't suddenly gone up, just our perception of it (which is wrong by the way).
I would love to hear you repeat that as you are restrained with some fella about to put a blade in your temple. Very easy to say from a position of safety
he also said you could stab them. so should the worst happen and i end up bludgeoning the ****er, then ken has given me something to fall back on and back me up ta
the example he gave was an old lady faced with an 18 yo burglar, its not the same if that 18yo is up against me (i could kill him with a glance) or possibly even you. so it sounds tough on crime but as long as he chucks in "reasonable force" he's covering his bases. its the same law. if said old lady stabs him 30 times in the back as he's fleeing she'll still go to prison
I do .. when you're in my house it's my ****in rules and that goes for everyone , friends,family, intruders. They know if they dont like my rules they can **** off
A lad who went to my school had his house robbed by drug dealers (he was a small-time weed dealer but apparently he'd stepped on their toes). They came round, held knives to his throat then fled. As they wer on their way out, said lad managed to grab his trusty samurai sword and slashed one of them once on the leg. His cowardly mates left him and he bled to death (his femoral artery had been cut). This lad went down for murder. Would that still be the case with these changes?
well you know how much the law favours the criminals, so seeing as he slashed him when he was on his way out i imagine he'd still get ****ed. although having a knife held to ones throat is ample enough reason for me to kill the ****. i can't wait for when i get called up to jury duty! how long did the guy get btw?
You cannot frame a law to cover every set of circumstances. Most people know reasonable force when they see it. If you knock a burglar unconscious with one punch as he comes towards you, you will not be prosecuted. If you slit his throat when he is out for the count, be prepared to go to prison for a long time. Juries do convict people, who they consider have gone over the top in such cases and others, who assault burglars are not prosecuted at all. In desperate circumstances, it may be considered reasonable to kill or seriously injure a burglar. When a person is charged for going over the top against a burglar, the press report it as though you cannot touch a burglar, which is complete rubbish.