It’s a sobering thought to me that there are actually places in the world that the law does not allow citizens to protect themselves.
> It’s a sobering thought to me that there are actually places in the world that the law does not allow citizens to protect themselves.
In NZ we can use “reasonable force” to protect ourselves or someone else, which the courts tend to interpret as “the minimum amount of force necessary to bring the situation under control”.
All of which, of course, gets second-guessed in Court under the benefit of hindsight.
In the heat of the moment, it is difficult to gauge how much force is “minimal”, as you can well appreciate. It’s a farce, actually.