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"Paul J. Adam" wrote in
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In message , Stephen Harding
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I have no intention of shooting anyone.

Agree fully with Stephen on this: back when I was a pistol shooter I
cheerfully massacred hordes of cardboard silhouettes with no intention
of finding live targets, and that applied to everyone I knew who shot:
we enjoyed socialising while turning live rounds into empty cases, and
trying to improve our grouping or our course times or both.

Massachusetts
law doesn't let you off the hook if you shoot someone
that has broken into your home. You are required to
leave the premises if escape is possible.

As a side note, in the UK "duty of retreat" doesn't apply in your home:
you're allowed to use whatever means are reasonable and necessary to
defend yourself if attacked there.



Yes,it's just the definition of "reasonable and necessary" that's
questionable,arbitrary,and vague.

IMO,once they're in my home,they're a threat to my life.
You cannot consider it otherwise,there's always that possibility.



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Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net

In message , Jim Yanik
writes
"Paul J. Adam" wrote in
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As a side note, in the UK "duty of retreat" doesn't apply in your home:
you're allowed to use whatever means are reasonable and necessary to
defend yourself if attacked there.

Yes,it's just the definition of "reasonable and necessary" that's
questionable,arbitrary,and vague.

....which is interpreted by a jury of your peers if necessary. It's
worked for the last seven hundred years or so (there's case law going
back to the 1300s). A basic rule of thumb is "hurt them until they run
away, then stop unless they turn back".

IMO,once they're in my home,they're a threat to my life.
You cannot consider it otherwise,there's always that possibility.

No problem: you just need to raise a reasonable doubt on those lines in
the minds of the jury. If Fred Barras had been shot in the chest then
Tony Martin would probably have been acquitted.

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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

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