Gun Culture

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

More self defence bollocks

Front page news on the Telegraph

‘Have-a-go heroes’ get legal right to defend themselves

Bollocks from the start of course because we do have a legal right to defend ourselves already, it is just that the Criminal Justice System is staffed by Marxists who do no believe that this should be the case.  When I say CJS I mean the whole gammut of the legal process from the frontline coppers (never used to be so but is becoming more so) through the ranks of coppers, solicitors, the CPS (the worst link in the chain), barristers, magistrates and judges.  Statist bastards the lot.  Of course we have the legal right to defend ourselves, the limits are merely there such that one does not torture to death someone for pinching a carrot from your veg patch.  This has been mangled over the years, coupled with Establishment desire to disarm the populace in order to protect their worthless hides, to mean that scum must be given more than a sporting chance.  Even to the extent that we owe an intruder with malicious intent (is there any other?) a duty of care.
Knickers to that.  We should get back to first principles whereby if someone crosses your threshold or offers you violence in the streets your legal right, nay duty under Common Law, is to offer them more violence back than they could ever dream of.
This shite in the Telegraph, I’ll pick the obvious example they quote.

Shoot an armed robber in the “heat of the moment” using a shotgun stored in your home if threatened by them

So the robber must be aarmed, in your home and have threatened you?  Sheesh.  Hang on mister armed blagger who has threatened me, wait whilst I go to my gun cabinet, unlock same, unrack gun, find a box of carts, load my gun and come back and shoot you.  Uh-huh.
What we should really be able to do is shoot the cucking funt no questions asked.  In my house dark O’thirty, click click bang you’re dead.
Another one, we cannot apparently:

Lay in wait for a burglar and ambush them, or shoot them from behind

Why on Earth not?  Break into a house and expect to die.  What safer way for a householder to despatch chummy than from behind?  Again with the sporting chance.  These aren’t pheasants we’re talking about, they’re pond life.  No sporting chances.  Break into a house, count on dying.  Let’s make house breaking the country’s most dangerous profession and see how many people are itching to shinny up drainpipes.

Shoot or attack a trespasser on private land if they are challenged and run away

So we can shoot someone if they don’t run away?  Yeah, I bet.  What about a driven shoot.  The antis turn up to distrupt.  Get ‘orf moi laaarnd!  Then they refuse to go.  Can I shoot the bastards?  No?  Thought not.

More half-arsed, headline grabbing shite from a half-arsed Government.
The law has not changed one jot, anyone who thinks it has is either a Government Minister or a journalist.
Business as usual folks.  Open season on the law abiding, with criminals protected by the full force of the nations criminal justice system.