yeah, I'd say it's a grey area. No matter the amount of force applied, the criminal could turn around and say that it was beyond "necessary" force, because there's no clarity to the law (but what do you expect from Blaire?). Damn bleeding-heart liberals and their nanny-states. When did the English get neutered? I like it here about as much as I would like having my spleen removed with a rusty spoon. It is very unsafe here, esp for women. Cape Town has the highest rape rate in the world. I live in one of the 'safer' areas in Cape Town, and my house is the only house in my street (and block) that hasn't been broken into (touch wood ). My best friend lives in a rather dodgy area, and he's constantly having guys jumping over the wall to try and break in (the amount of times I've slept over and we've had to go out and scare off some asshat who thinks the house is an easy target...). It's reached the point where he's forced to walk about with either his knuckle-dusters or one of his various knives. I work in one of the dodgier areas in town and I have a 8" knife and a police baton in my car. But that's just Cape Town. Joburg is much, much worse. Hillbrow (one of the suburbs there) houses look like fort knoxes. I mean, one of the houses I stayed in was actually designed to be confusing so that no one would try and break in. Gun control has tightened a lot, but this has caused the sales of bladed weapons, pellet guns, crossbows, tazers and the like to shoot up I think he's a hero. If more ppl did that I think that thieves would at least think long and hard before breaking in I mean, crime will flourish when ppl know that the law favours criminals. the problem is that if i remember correctly, no one defined 'reasonable force'. thus, the criminal (or any bloody bleeding-heart liberal who happens to like the sound of their own voice) will immediately bitch and piss and moan about it. Lol, if your dogs savaged someone, even an intruder (esp if the intruder was black. Basically, if you're black you get special treatment), they have to be put down for being "dangerous". Bloody hell. THE DOG'S MEANT TO SAVAGE ASSHATS WHO TRESPASS ONTO MY BLOODY PROPERTY AT NIGHT TIME!! If the guy was black, you immediately get labelled a racist and most of the papers try and villianise you (eg, "evil white person deliberately unleashes vicious dogs on poor black man seeking help"). But thats enough off-topic rantings from me
You really sound like you have a problem with liberals and blacks, it's really beginning to make you look ignorant and undeducated. I'm a "liberal" and as far as I'm concerned if someone breaks into your house you should be able to "shoot to kill" and own all the guns you want. In fact, I think all the ones here whining about guns wouldn't call themselves liberals. If you had any idea what you were talking about, you'd stop generalizing all liberals into believing one thing.
lol, no, I don't have a problem with blacks or liberals. What I do have a problem with is specialist treatment due to skin colour or sex. Especially when it's institutionalised like it is here (in the form of things like affirmative action and government prejudice, like how "all white people are rich" and "no black person is racist" <-this has been mentioned by members of our parliment several times). And when it comes to liberals, I only have problems with the bleeding-hearts: the uber-PC retards who feel sorry for everything and everyone and don't stop bloody whining about everything.
No real gun but... i own Splatmatic Paintball Shotgun just for leisure paintball excercise... But my father own a 12 guage Lee Enfield Shotgun for our farm.. I have an experiance use it to shoot boar in my primary school time.
Check out The Failed Experiment: Gun Control and Public Safety in Canada, Australia, England and Wales. Lots of good stuff, such as:
I went to a gun show in Phoenix yesterday. Thousands of guns - including Romanian AK47's for as little as $350. What really caught my eye were the fully automatic M16s and several other submachine guns that were priced at $12,000-15,000!! They also had some .50 cal 4-foot long rifles! The bullets were longer than a finger!
Why the fuck would you want a gun?! Fucking crazy! Some one got shot down the road from me 3 days ago (didnt die though) p.s. this would surely have been better as a poll.
Probably because here in the states we believe in a little thing called self defense I know it's hard concept for you guys in the UK to understand.. but when someone breaks into my home, I won't be sitting there defenseless like you.
That's because he didn't have a gun. Another reason is that unarmed population can't overthrow the government. 'Gun control' is a big thing any place where a suppressive government is in power.
Keeping a gun has its own advantages and disadvantages. Although, advantage weigh more. In India, if you shot a fire in public you are in for big time. a lot of people here keep guns for show off, they dont need it at all. They would carry a gun all time, when they are drunk, they would brag about it. I read a lot of incidents where people shot mistakenly and some innocent people lost their lives. Another, bad tradition here, specially in northen part, is firing shots in air during functons such as marriages and some festivals. Every year i hear atleast 4-5 cases where children got shot who were watching the proceedings from roof, cause of shot fired for fun. It really makes me feel very SAD. So, moral is only keep a gun if you are mature enough to handle it. This is true in India atleast.
A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. -- Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1952)
I don't fear weapons, I have been around them my whole life, I even seen people shot by them. I just think stockpiling arsenals, is signs of some deep rooted fears, and insecurities