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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Self defense injustice in the UK
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 18:44:50 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>On Jun 5, 2025 at 11:32:30 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6/5/2025 1:16 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>  On Jun 5, 2025 at 8:26:42 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>  
>>>>  On 6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <lcraver@home.ca>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>    
>>>>>>    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
>>>>>>    wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to
>death, then her
>>>>>>>    knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
>>>>>>>    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in
>>>>>>    self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and
>>>>>>    think of the Empire"!
>>>>>    
>>>>>    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag
>if I have
>>>>>    anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the
>>>>> doors and
>>>>>    windows.
>>>> 
>>>>  Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime.
>>>  
>>> If you don't want to be shot to death while breaking into someone's home to
>>> steal from them, there's a 100% effective way of guaranteeing that never
>>> happens to you: don't break into people's homes and steal from them.
>> 
>> That has a smidgen of resonance with "let them eat cake".
>
>No one has a right to my property and they certainly don't have a right to put
>me and my family in danger when trying to take it.
>
>Fuck around and find out.

Again, this is the UK. You are in danger only if the home invader also
uses language that makes you feel bad.