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Originally posted by kronas
ramrod in this day you have to use 'reasonable' force not shoot someone now if you were threatend by a gun then yeah i would deem shooting him with a gun 'reasonable' force
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Just as an observation here, I recently saw a report on TV about another case of a man who, when armed with a rifle, confronted a burglar.
The burglar ran towards the man who shot him in the leg.
The man was later acquitted because, as the burglar had been coming towards the man it was accepted that he had acted in self defence.
Two points here:
1) Martin was only charged and convicted because he shot someone in the *back*
2) I've just spent the last 25 minutes trying to find *ANY* reference to the above mentioned story on the web, in newspaper archives or anywhere and I *can't*!!
I know the story exists, but it seems that it wasn't newsworthy enough to get the coverage that the Martin case did.
Odd that.