Re: Self defense injustice in the UK

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Jun 13, 2025 at 10:08:54 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

6/13/2025 12:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:

Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>:

Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you
to be a danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And
regardless, even if they're only there to steal and I can somehow
know this as they're kicking in my front door, I'm neither legally
nor morally required to abandon my home to thieves or stand aside
and let them have their way with my property.

And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life,
why should I do any different?

Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
when it comes to your own abode.

Absolutely.  In a world that values property more than life.

Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his own
life more than my property, why should I?

Umm, in most households anyway, theft isn't considered suicidal.

It is if you're in a place where gun ownership isn't restricted.

If you're in Texas and considering home invasion as a vocation, the
probability that you'll be shot sooner rather than later is something
you need to seriously consider.

The hypothetical gentleman whom moviePig falsely insists is a "thief",
despite having been corrected on this many many times, is merely paying
you a friendly visit... in the middle of the night.

If you hit him upside the head with a blunt instrument, you are being
ever so kind as to remind him that breaking and entering is not proper
etiquette for calling upon you. You are pounding the clue into his
head, hopefully hard enough that the clue will penetrate. I'm sure you
will encounter high SRF but do the very best you can.

It is kind of you to take the time to do this.