The Crown Prosecution Service has released guidelines on how you’re allowed to defend yourself if someone brakes into your home.
You can use weapons if you do it ‘honestly and instinctively’, and will probably not face prosecution.
If someone’s legging it out the door with your laptop the advice says you can use force to stop them, ‘a rugby tackle or a single blow would probably be reasonable’.
This is all very nice of them, I’ll try and keep it in mind if I ever get in a position to crack a burglars head open.
It does make you wonder how out of control the burglary rate is getting if the government feels it needs to tell the public, just go ahead and deal with it.
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Here in Colorado we have the “Make my day law”. If you find someone in your home uninvited you have the state’s permission to kill them. My preference is a shotgun loaded with birdshot, it makes less of a mess and doesn’t penetrate walls. Some may consider this as barbaric. But isn’t the basis of civilization the ability to enforce laws and protect the weak. My wife and son are weak, but I am not.
Steve, Colorado’s obviously the home of common sense, hope you never have to use the shotgun.
If you cave some guy’s skull in while he is climbing out the window make sure you pull him back into the house and turn in around before the cops arrive.
I reckon anyone who invades some other person’s home deserves what they get. In Texas you can defend your self and your property with deadly force after dark, meaning if some monkey is steraling your lawnmower he’s a target.