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Protecting my home
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How far should you be able to go to protect ur home from intruders?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.When I came across burglars in my house in March I shouted for them to leave. Stupidly I didn't tell them to leave what they had in their pockets. There was no way I wanted any violence I just wanted them out of my house. They were taken by surprise and so left. They weren't kids but grown adults but of the gypsy type...
Saying this I still haven't installed an alarm but I do make sure all is locked even when I pop out even to the bakery!
Saying this I still haven't installed an alarm but I do make sure all is locked even when I pop out even to the bakery!
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IF you live in the UK, the law is quite clear:
1: If an intruder is physically threatening you or yours, you may respond in kind. That doesn't mean that you blast him with your 12 bore if he puts his fists up for a punch up.
2: If an intruder's legging it away, you can't shoot him in the back, as Tony Martin did.
3: If an intruder points a gun at you, or swings a baseball bat at you, then you would be justified in shooting him.
4: So far on here, IF these posters are here in the UK, at least half a dozen of you would get nicked.
5: NO Judge in the UK would utter the words that it was fine to shoot someone as long as your firearm was held legally.That is so much rubbish.
1: If an intruder is physically threatening you or yours, you may respond in kind. That doesn't mean that you blast him with your 12 bore if he puts his fists up for a punch up.
2: If an intruder's legging it away, you can't shoot him in the back, as Tony Martin did.
3: If an intruder points a gun at you, or swings a baseball bat at you, then you would be justified in shooting him.
4: So far on here, IF these posters are here in the UK, at least half a dozen of you would get nicked.
5: NO Judge in the UK would utter the words that it was fine to shoot someone as long as your firearm was held legally.That is so much rubbish.