They’ll also gladly convict any fool that does manage to shoot a cop (now legally entering your home) of murder so don’t think that you’ll get off because of your righteous cause, it ain’t going to happen.
Following your recipe for pacifist surrender to the Totalitarians there are two more stages towards us becoming like the UK. The next stage is that crims will be highly motivated to impersonate police officers during home invasions. Shortly after that, this judge will probably rule that resisting intruders of any sort leads to violence and that the vic should lie back, get raped, robbed and whatever else the perp feels motivated to do - since all of this will be sorted out in court.
“Following your recipe for pacifist surrender to the Totalitarians there are two more stages towards us becoming like the UK. ...”
It’s not my “recipe” but just an observation of how (modern) people behave and have behaved here in the US. This case would not have happened if it were not for the jury “rubber stamping” the case the prosecutor presented to them without even bothering to rub two brain cells together. And yes the UK is a good example of how this will all end here in the US, we will eventually be told by our masters that we have no right to self defense and they will severely punish any who dare to actually defend themselves while letting the criminals roam the streets unmolested.
Will people here react any differently than they did in the UK? Probably not, it’s human nature to follow authority and those few that do try to stand up against it will be beat down without mercy in order to provide an example to all who may be considering following their example. It’s quite effective and has been used successfully in almost all modern nation states, to one degree or another. The only way to fight this is to practice civil disobedience (i.e., jury nullification, not protests which buy you nothing but the contempt of everyone not on your side) and organized attempts at changing the laws (bribes, or as they are currently called campaign contributions, getting judges recalled, etc.).
Doing the “cold dead hands” thing sounds all macho but in reality doesn’t do anything because most people are not suicidal so really won’t do that and (more than likely) you won’t be even given the chance as they be all over you like a bad suit before you even realize that they are there.