This is defined as :- "A Castle Doctrine (also known as a Castle Law or a Defense of Habitation Law) is an American legal doctrine that designates a person's abode (or, in some states, any place legally occupied, such as a car or place of work) as a place in which the person has certain protections and immunities and may in certain circumstances use force, up to and including deadly force, to defend against an intruder without becoming liable to prosecution." I believe that the United States of America is the only remaining bastion of social freedom in the Western World. All other Westernized countries that I know of have by law withdrawn the natural right of an individual to protect his family and property. in Britain it is forbidden to hurt the intruder, we are supposed to just sit back and think of England while they pillage our home or hurt or kill our family in the process. Well, when it comes to the health/wefare of me, my property and family. I don`t give a shit for the law, my policy is to kill any intruder who intends to hurt me or my family or burgle/damage my property and I have a shotgun to do it very efficiently, BANG ! they are gone. I would rather be in the dock facing trumped-up charges than in the Morgue or Hospital. Question ? How do you view this problem ? Your laws and Constitution regarding the right to bear arms and defend your property are quite unique in the modern world of protecting the criminal at the expense of ourselves. Also the ability to own a handgun or an infinite variety of sophisticated weaponry at the flash of a credit card to do the job is a wide spread simple convenience. Compared to us in the UK, it is like buying a candy bar.
It seems this forum attract a lot of want to be Rambo who doesn´t know what they are talking about. In regard to UK, you can read this: http://www.cps.gov.uk/publications/prosecution/householders.html Because you live in UK, I hope that you at least know what CPS is.
I posted this subject in the hope that a few of the hundreds of millions of ordinary Americans would comment as to how they cope with it in their everyday lives. It should have sparked a massive interest, since the principle is paramount to their daily welfare. But what do I get ? A huge burst of useless personal criticism of my basic post and futile and pointless reference to my place of residence from a "Herald of the Titans" with 10,675 posts to his credit. Amazing how such a battle hardened veteran can be so utterly unable to understand the basic message of a completely innocent post asking for views on such a vital subject. Quite frankly, the comments given are both stupid and insulting and if such a Goliath of the Forum can only resort to petty abuse and completely ignore the subject, there is little hope to discuss anything other than the weather. I suppose our illustrious Maestro would even find something wrong with that and crucify the author. All I can say fellows is - God help you all. AND ! Keep your juvenile Rambo remarks to yourself in future and PLEASE take at least some interest in what exactly the thread is about. Look on the bright side - you do not have to blast everybody to Kingdom Come, we are NOT all bad. Be a good boy and cool it. Footnote for punters :- I have found in my long experience that members with a large number of posts to their names on technical Forum`s, are very knowledgeable, very constructive, often provide solutions to intricate problems and NEVER become abusive. On the contrary, members with a massive numbers of posts to their names on chat Forum`s are usually of no constructional value, have an inflated ego, are not much help, are no big deal - just chatters, often completely ignore the subject and engage in character assassination and personal abuse in an attempt to display their self styled status of a poor man`s Guru - keep the natives in order. Does any of this click Gworld ? It should do.
A lot of blah, blah to hide the fact that you lack the knowledge about the subject. My post was directly to the point that you were wrong and as the source I used the CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE website. I am sorry that I have disappointed you by not posting: " we are the tough guys, lets go buy guns and shoot everybody."
Hello Titan, I am well aware that it is extremely disturbing when an intellectual holocaust Newbie suddenly arrives in your midst, but that is life - full of nasty surprises eh ? My thread was essentially about the attitude of millions of ordinary Americans towards the "Castle Doctrine", not about that little shithole the UK of which I am to my shame, very familiar with and of which YOU are completely incapable of telling me anything new whatsoever. For a nation that tops the world crime league by a mile and has more guns than population, I would have thought that the subject of personal protection is paramount to survival in the US. You are obviously some kind of "Turn the other cheek, forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do" and let them pillage my property and kill me and my family freak. Well Titan, have a nice day, but millions of real sane Americans think differently. My dear but totally naive friend, this subject has produced volumes of input on the web, why is it that YOU in all your glory of mammoth poster and restricted mental capability, should only find a few words aimed at criticizing JB ? It is obviously too complex for you to understand, I suggest you move on to another more simple post which meets your rather limited contributional abilities. PS -WOW ! 10,676 posts in 7 years - Gee man you must do nothing but sit on your butt thumping in natty-chatty irrelevant thingy`s on the Forum. That`s 4 posts every single day ! Do you have time to leave the old keyboard and have a pee ?
Am I wrong to think that you have never lived in USA, you have never served in the military and never been in possession of a gun? Your whole post stinks of a young scared guy who likes to pretend he is a Rambo. Contrary to you, I have lived and worked in USA, served in the military and still have different type of guns in my home in Canada. As a person with the experience, I can tell you that while talking tough can be cool, getting into a situation that you will need to shoot a person is not and the majority of people can not do it.
A PLEA FROM THE HEART. Is there anybody out there in the big USA or world who can comment purely on the subject, without resorting to the popular tendency of slamming the author ? I know it is a lot to ask, but please try your best.
GWorld is from Canada and hates/is envious of the US as much as you are. Watching you two go at it is like watch one group of Syrian Islamist terrorists butcher another. Why get involved?
LOL. The Mexican in you must learn some English instead wasting your time pretending to be a white neo-con "American" if that is what you understood from these postings.
Small interruption from the troll fest but here's a quick question. Are the governments of Australia and Canada composed of complete morons ? Why the hell is it illegal to own body armor in Canada and Australia ? Why the hell would you need a license if you're trying to protected yourself and your peers ? Even big brother UK doesn't have such ridiculous laws.