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Originally posted by Graham
Do you really think that Tony Martin blasting someone in the back with a shotgun *after* he had already fired several shots and the burglars were running away was a "split second decision"?
No, not an oversight in the slightest. As I've just said in another message, our laws exist not only to protect us from criminals, but to protect us from ourselves.
I don't want to live in a country where the Lynch Mob deals out "justice" (ie a good kicking), do you? Would you still want to if the person getting the kicking was you because you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Martin was denied parole because he refused to show remorse for what he had done, something which is generally considered to be an important part of a parole hearing.
Tell me, which Tabloid newspapers do you read?
And I say we should string them all up from the nearest lamp-post! - Signed Angry of Andover.
So write to your MP. That's what he's there for.
If you have to break the law to uphold the law there is *NO LAW*.
He didn't *need* to shoot someone in the back, but he did, out of a desire for revenge, nothing else. He broke the law. He paid the penalty.
Wake up and listen to the baying of the Lynch Mobs...
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The problem here is that we have a double standard in favour of criminals.
If the burglars of Tony Martin's house had arrived armed and had killed Tony Martin as he attempted to defend his home, they would have got away with murder and the possessions they came to steal. The odds of being caught are ,after all, fairly poor in remote areas.
But if Tony Martin attempts to defend himself, armed or unarmed, he is on a hiding to nothing because he is expected to allow them to get away with his possessions which to him may be irreplaceable rather than attempt to prevent them in any effective way.
It would have been interesting if Fearon and his companion had got away and on their next burglary had killed someone's grandmother.
The evidence is that hardened criminals repeat their crimes and it's time the law acknowledged that and put them away for a long time so that ordinary citizens are not put in the position that Tony Martin was placed in.
It does seem that you are supposed to stand by while crooks help themselves to your goods or take the risk of either being killed yourself or having to kill to protect yourself and your property.
The law is supposed to act as a deterrent to criminals. Ours is so disorganised that it doesn't and crime thrives.