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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
Imagine, for a moment, that you are a robber standing on the sidewalk between two homes. On your right is a car in the driveway with a bumper sticker reading "Proud Member of the NRA." On your left is a car with the sticker reading "Guns Kill." Which house would you choose to rob? British law turns every house into the one on the left.
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Because of a bumper sticker?
Just because, thankfully, the vast majority of our populance don't have guns doesn't mean that we can't seriously mame an intruder.
I still don't get why just about everyone responding to this thread seems to think that because our government has said to give over our valubles or lock ourselves away that every single person will do that. Of course there will be people who will do that, and the same everywhere else in the world. I know people here who would a gun (legal or otherwise) to defend their homes and family.
Like i said before, our government has started procedures to make it perfectly legal for a homeowner to defend themselves with force, even if it does mean killing the intruder.
Also worth mentioning is that using the Tony Martin case (where a he shot a 16 year old intruder dead) is a highly irregular case, and should not be used as context on British law, customs or judicial practices because of the fact it is so rare, and overly played in the media.