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Originally posted by TDawgRex
reply to post by WatchRider
Another epic fail for the UK. First allowing Sharia law to supercede their own laws, now this. The collapse is complete.
Originally posted by WatchRider
Spare a thought for 'prison-island' UK were you CANNOT defend yourself against an attacker!!!!
Originally posted by bsbray11
This is why Americans will never give up their right to own and carry a firearm for self-defense.
If you let the government take your right to defend yourself out of your hands then this is the nonsense that follows.
Originally posted by THE_PROFESSIONAL
Someone needs to go find this guy and place an IED in his ass and make him walk around britain apologizing for his actions and calling for his punishment in prison as well as calling to repeal the draconian british laws that date back to 445 AD.
Originally posted by trollz
Wait wait wait... Hold on... No charges were brought against the guy who tried to attack her, and she's given a fine for defending herself?
So if I move there and try to attack a girl at night while wearing a mask, I'll get away free while she gets charged with a crime?
Is there a certain point where she was expected to stop kicking him under such circumstances? "Oh, ok, you fell down on the ground, now we can all go home safe and happy and forget this ever happened"
I feel like I'm living in some kind of universe where god died and the strings holding reality together are fraying and coming apart.
Originally posted by Essan
she went too far by continuing to kick her attacker on the head even after he was knocked unconscious.
'nuff said.
Just because one person breaks the law does not mean that you have the right to do likewise. It's what separates us from them.
Originally posted by Soshh
Originally posted by WatchRider
Spare a thought for 'prison-island' UK were you CANNOT defend yourself against an attacker!!!!
You can use reasonable and proportionate force to defend yourself. People do this every day with no problems and she would not have been fined if she had not used unnecessary force.
Welcome to the Liberal Utopia of England
Originally posted by WatchRider
Girl fined for fighting back at masked man
edinburghnews.scotsman.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
Girl fined for fighting back at masked man
A TERRIFIED teenage girl has been fined £500 for knocking unconscious a masked stranger who stalked her home from a nightclub in what lawyers have called an "exceptional" case.
Claire Burleigh, 19, was pounced on by Sean Docherty, 43, as she was about to open the door of her Bathgate home, Livingston Sheriff Court heard yesterday.
Docherty had earlier been thrown out of the nightclub following a drunken argument.
Originally posted by Shamatt
It's a question of reasonable force. Once the guy is unconcious on the ground he is no longer a threat - is it therefore reasonable to continue kicking him in the head and face, causing him serious injuries? He may have deserved it in our minds, but the line needs drawing somewhere. Are we to return to a vigilante society where we doll out our own punishments to those who we feel deserve it?
Originally posted by TheDevilOfLies
Originally posted by Shamatt
It's a question of reasonable force. Once the guy is unconcious on the ground he is no longer a threat - is it therefore reasonable to continue kicking him in the head and face, causing him serious injuries? He may have deserved it in our minds, but the line needs drawing somewhere. Are we to return to a vigilante society where we doll out our own punishments to those who we feel deserve it?
heres where all of the people saying this crap are wrong
AT LEAST ACCORDING to the current govts of the world
in another thread on the main page right now the topic is about swat shooting a man 60 times
wheres defense and offense start and stop?
give me a break
if a TRAINED Group of men who are trained and PAID to do the right thing in extreme cases can shoot a gun 60 times firing over 70 shots
then a girl being attacked outside her home has the right to kick the attacker as many times as she does because she is scared, not trained nor paid to do the exact RIGHT THING
so maybe if the right thing is stopping the moment the person is subdued
in the heat of battle, and you are in the battle, will you know exactly when that moment is and hold back in mid swing?
yea i doubtedit on 28-5-2011 by TheDevilOfLies because: (no reason given)