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>The police quite rightly responded, searched the man's home and he
>went to court and got a small fine. That's what the police are
>supposed to do. That the kids were committing a criminal act doesn't
>justify a different criminal act.
Isn't that the rub? If a gang was kicking in a car, your car, would you like
to ask them to stop? Or would you shout at them from a distance, and hope they
didn't kick you to death? Or perhaps call the police, who will turn up well after the
fact? Or, use the safest course of action, and threaten them with lethal force
sufficient to overcome all of them, so that they won't attack you, nor continue with
the
criminal act?
Personally, I think the man did everything he could, indeed the only thing
he could, given the situation. The only other thing he could have done is nothing,
and the crime would have continued. The gang are, after all, not about to stop at a
polite word.
I think we should bring back the term "outlaw" for situations like this. If
you choose to break the law, be it criminal damage or burglary, you have chosen
to step outside the law. Whilst you are committing that act, you should not be
allowed to pick and choose, and, having decided that the laws you are breaking don't
apply to you, then rely on using another law to defend you should some good Samaritan
try to stop you, whether, in this case, with words, or with actions, or some
combination of the two.
Two wrongs do not make a right. That is not what I am saying, but if good
men are bound by the law to stand by while evil and mischief are done, what kind of
society are we living in?
Nigel
Nigel Tolley
www.rubbertreeplant.co.uk
He was sticking to his guns, alright, but they were empty..
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Well I disagree with you. Use of lethal force to prevent a property crime
is not justifiable IMO. People seem to be reading all kinds of things
into that article that are not there. Nowhere in the article did it say
the kids tried to attack him or threaten him in any way. Nowhere in the
article did it say that the kids had any reason to doubt the threat was
genuine.
There are few places in the world where a threat of lethal force to
stop a property crime is legal.
There are many other things he could have done given the situation and
I think we all know that.
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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