So can you kill a burglar in your house

[Snatcher]

I would kill a posse of them and burn their bodies before forensics turned up!What ever happened to an English mans home is his castle!

What was that movie with Charles Bronsen in? cannot think cos I am mingin team.

 

I am a mellow guy - but!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I took martial arts for a number of years,I weight train every other day. I still go on the punchbag every time at the gym. I side curl 12.5 kg for fun.

Yes if someone broke into my house I would kill him and put the body at the bottom of my compost heap at the allotment.

Does that make me a bad guy?

Done a thread about 2 month ago but best say nowt in case the wigs are wigging. Killed noboby but sparked two - oh dear should I erase this?

[BIG MAC]

death wish

[Snatcher]

Kill the mothers!

[Snatcher]

Nearly plugged the windowcleanes last year! Neighborhood watch thats the game. "John there are two lads in the yard next door" So I was scaling the backyard fence with the baseball bat I had stumbled across under my bed when the wife shouted STOP ITS THE WINDOW CLEANERS

THEY WERE LUCKY!

there is more in the treasure chest from real life/protection. May do one later - can I get into trouble "theorising" will tell you at least one more tale - I am am sure I have done the one of sparked two! joking officer

[John S]

You can only use reasonable force on a burglar, but reasonable force has just (legally) become less reasonable and more forcefull....

 

I say, cripple them for life. As soon as they break into your house, IMO they then lose all recourse to the law.

[Jim Roper]

Anybody who values their gun license, should be careful what they post on a public forum. Even the 'private' forums have police as members.

[FearTheHands]

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I say, cripple them for life. As soon as they break into your house, IMO they then lose all recourse to the law.

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Hear! Hear! Couldn't agree more demon

 

Anything in my house belongs to me, including you if you are trespassing ...

[Ken L]

"Reasonable force" is an interesting notion. For me, it means that if I have to go, I go full throttle until the bad guy is down and not moving or limbs are very obviously broken. If he's stopped moving because he's dead - tough !

 

I have no problem with the use of "weapons" that happen to be at hand in the context of defending your home either. Afterall, you have no idea what the bad guy is packing and only an idiot would forgo an equelizer.

 

Unreasonable force would be going back to give him a few extra digs once I've disenguaged and it is clear that he's no longer a treat to me or mine.

 

Whether the courts would agree with the above I don't know but the old adage is very true. it is better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.

 

Of course, some folkes go over the top. Irrespective of the failures of the police prior to the events that lead to his arrest, the reason why Tony Martin never really got accepted as a poster boy for home defence argument was the fact that he systematicaly boobytraped his home and then lay in wait for his anticipated burglers armed with an illegally held firarm that he discharged whilst the bad guy was running away - and therefor not a direct threat.

On all three counts, he was out of order.

[Huge_Vitae]

OK lets give it a twist.

 

I am in my garden, accompanied by two very fit and large friends.

 

At my side I have a very large Rottweiler Dog.

 

I am carrying a shotgun.

 

I find a man hiding in the bushes of my garden and shoot him, both barrels at close range.

 

He obviously does not survive.

 

Verdict please. lets go for the first twelve replies.....

[MickJ]

Perhaps he was from the Drugs Squad, looking for illegal substances he suspected were in your garden following a tip-off and considering previous encounters with you regarding possesion of same.

 

You are therefore guilty as charged or discharged in your case.