Bag's Rants

Self Defence in the law means Home Defence only.

I was reading about this guy losing an appeal against the removal of his shotgun license which leads to the fact you can't do anything to defend yourself nowadays without running foul of the law. The same laws that don't seem to protect you. To be honest this guy was stupid. He didn't look at our criminal class and modify his behaviour by lying. If he had said he had learnt his lesson rather than being truthful and saying he would do it again he may have got away with it.

Being in your house however seems to allow a greater latitude for self defence. So the best thing to do is barricade yourself in your house. If someone breaks in blow them away with the home made shotgun they came in with. Wink, wink. Fingerprints will need to be added later.

That got me thinking about the way our rights to self defence are being eroded whilst at the same time society seems to be getting more aggressive. The police can't help you. They can scrape up the remains and then chase down the offenders most of the time but that does not stop bad things happening to you.

Then, of course, there is the oppressive society we are now in which mean that you have a lot more risk of your own Government giving you lead injections either deliberately or accidentally. All this to protect you from an increased risk of a terrorist attack.

All in all, a definite increase to the risk of you getting killed or injured and an insignificant risk of a terrorist doing either of those things to you.

Bring on the revolution.

posted by Bag @ 3:44 pm