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I guess they are underhandedly suggesting gun ownership so that the burglar is shot and buried and thus is physically unable to 'sue for trauma'
My sister moved to a farm in the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee, and when they met the local judge at the local bar, he told them if they catch and shoot a burglar, to make sure they kill him. The judge would rather that the police respond to a call with dead burglars.
This would be shocking, except for the fact it came out of the UK. Why doesn't their government capitalize on their theives by requiring a thieving license to burglarize too?
This is about frivolous lawsuits and bad judges (if a suing burglar was ever successful). I don't see the size of government being relevant here.
The castle doctrine in NC is a bill, hopefully signed into law on Dec 2011 that would safeguard a victim from both criminal AND civil penalties stemming from the killing of an intruder. So, yes, the legislature can dictate how far the courts can go in terms of suing the homeowner.
This is where our country is heading folks. We need a major change in leadership to bring back a "common sense" approach to dealing with law breakers and prevent Big Government from pushing us toward that steep, slippery slope of idealism.
I am pretty idealistic about defending my friends, neighbors, family and myself with deadly violence if I judge it necessary. Not all idealists believe violence can or should be removed from the human race.
Punishing homeowners for injuring criminals invading the home is sheer absurdity. What in Hell are the Brits trying to accomplish.
I agree with the Judge. Dead robbers are less likely to shoot cops. Or anyone else, ever.
I recall a similar warning a couple of years ago. IIRC a garden plot lessee was actually sucessfully sued because a burgler cut himself on barbed wire fencing around the garden.
Nanny states encourage and reward bad behavior. Yet, this is they Europeanizes style Socialism that Obama and his supporters wish for the USA.
Isn't it great be a SUBJECT in a constitutional monarchy!?
Don't the local governments actually own the land upon which these garden plots are worked?
I believe this is the reason that the writers of our Constitution emphasized the sanctity of personal property......which of course has sadly been ignored by our government and laws.
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If there be a government then which prides itself in maintaining the inviolability of property; which provides that none shall be taken directly even for public use without indemnification to the owner, and yet directly violates the property which individuals have in their opinions, their religion, their persons, and their faculties; nay more, which indirectly violates their property, in their actual possessions, in the labor that acquires their daily substsistance, and in the hallowed remnant of time which ought to relieve their fatigues and soothe their cares, the influence will have been anticipated, that such a government is not a pattern for the United States.
If the United States mean to obtain or deserve the full praise due to wise and just governments, they will equally respect the rights of property, and the property in rights: they will rival the government that most sacredly guards the former; and by repelling its example in violating the latter, will make themselves a pattern to that and all other governments. ~ James Madison
Brit. gov. has had it bassackwards for quite some time.
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