If they wanted, they could have had a shotgun in their home to protect them from violent burglars....
There was an English farmer that used a shotgun inside his home defending himself from a group of similar violent burglars. He shot one or two of them (not sure if they died or not). The farmer got sent to prison. It’s nuts!
Here’s the event I was talking about. Other headlines indicated that the use of a firearm in self defense is not okay in England!
In 1999, Tony Martin, a 55-year-old Norfolk farmer living alone in a shabby farmhouse, awakened to the sound of breaking glass as two burglars, both with long criminal records, burst into his home. He had been robbed six times before, and his village, like 70 percent of rural English communities, had no police presence.
He sneaked downstairs with a shotgun and shot at the intruders. Martin received life in prison for killing one burglar, 10 years for wounding the second, and a year for having an unregistered shotgun. The wounded burglar, having served 18 months of a three- year sentence, is now free and has been granted £5,000 of legal assistance to sue Martin.