So Binners, you actually have anything to say on the subject or are you just being deliberately provocative?
This was always going through & DC was just the bloke at the wheel when it came to rubber stamping it.
For me it's a good thing. For too long home-owners have felt unable to defend themselves & their property. The crux of the matter being "dis-proportionate force" & it's definition is very clear. Have you read it?
It's a vote winner and it's free. Shrewd move.
A householder lay in wait for a burglar who tried to burgle his shed. The householder shot him in the back (South Yorkshire).
Schoolboy error. Should have shouted "you dropped your wallet", waited till he turned and then shot him in the chest.
cynical will be leaving the country if this becomes law.
but I don't want to live in a country where you can lawfully shoot people because they've come into your house.
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For me it's a good thing. For too long home-owners have felt unable to defend themselves & their property. The crux of the matter being "dis-proportionate force" & it's definition is very clear. Have you read it?
Have you read rogg's post? Home-owners have always been able to defend themselves. They may have felt they couldn't if they spent too much time reading/believing what it says in the tabloids. This is just shameless pandering to tabloid-generated frothing, based on misrepresentation of a tiny minority of cases.
My experience of finding a burglar in my house is limited to just the one occasion.
Caught a burglar in the kitchen after coming back from the pub, picked up a kitchen chair, smashed it over said burglars head, maybe kicked him once or twice whilst he was down and then dragged him out into the back garden by his hoodie.
Anyhow when the police finally arrive, they seemed fairly unconcerned when I told them, in fact they seemed to be positively quite cheery about it all. They took a statement and left happy.
Turns out it was a prolific offender who was about to get some serious time.
I never gave the burglar time to leave, didn't even cross my mind, I just wanted him out, my way. ( I was a bit drunk mind)
I even got compensation 🙂
EDIT: the point is 99.9% of burlagries are probably like this so it's really non news.
