Posted on 06/06/2010 4:13:55 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Householders who confront burglars are to be given greater rights to defend their families and homes. The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, is looking at increasing legal protection for people who use force to fight off intruders.
The government is eager to "ensure that people have the protection they need when they defend themselves against intruders", a ministry of justice source told the Observer.
Clarke will also examine the idea of increased legal protection for have-a-go heroes and passersby willing to "apprehend criminals". The move follows high-profile cases in which householders were given jail sentences after attacking burglars.
Last year Munir Hussain was jailed for using a cricket bat to beat a man who had broken into his home and threatened his family with a knife. Hussain was jailed for two and a half years for causing grievous bodily harm with intent, but was released after a public outcry.
The plan has brought warnings from senior police officers, however, who believe a change in the law could promote vigilantism and could also be exploited to provide excuses for those involved in assault cases.
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It’s long overdue that someone promote vigilantism in the UK before everything, not just Parliament, is taken over by the criminals!
Cops are the same everywhere. Has to be the personality type.
Ahh ...government...the giver of rights.
You better put a /sarc tag on that quick...
The European approach: rights are to be “given,” by a parliament or legislature that can just as easily take them away later on. That’s not the way we do things on this side of the water.
What they need to do is give the Brits their guns back.
“The move follows high-profile cases in which householders were given jail sentences after attacking burglars. “
Well perhaps some of that ridiculous jail time was not served in vain. Those poor people.
A typical police station in the UK, as of the end of WW II.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57-vQvo34E
“The plan has brought warnings from senior police officers, however, who believe a change in the law could promote vigilantism and could also be exploited to provide excuses for those involved in assault cases.”
Isn’t interesting that the cops are always against allowing people to protect themselves!! Could it be for job security reason?
Slight correction:
What Brits need to do is TAKE their guns back...
It’s so upside down and insane that you can’t defend yourself in your own home.
The world is truly upside down. Britain used to be great.
I lightly tapped a woman's rear bumper Friday afternoon. We were in the process of exchanging info in a civilized fashion when deputy Obama Fife pulls up and starts winding the girl up to believe there was damage to her bumper. He points to bird crap on her car and a light gray scrape on my car and says "see white on her bumper and white on your bumper". The girl was cute. He was attempting to ingratiate himself with her. These over equipped cretins are no more useful than dust mites and bedbugs to law abiding citizens.
Is this the same Kenneth Clarke who was around in Thatcher’s time?
Really, if “rights” are given, then they aren’t rights.
I know the saying is "Dial 911 and die". But c'mon. We make their jobs easier and save taxpayers money by ceasing to let them make us a victim and by sending them to jail.
Oh I forgot, argiung with a liberal mind gets you nowhere. A mental illness indeed.
Shooting a stranger dead who walks into in your bedroom in the middle of the night is evidence of being a vigilante?
Those evil dreamers, that’s the problem with this world! Damn them to hell! /s
Nobody gives me permission to protect my family. NOBODY!!!!
I think most folks are smart enough to know what you meant. I certainly did. Exactly right.
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