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Originally posted by Ramrod
Seems to work in the USA, they have half the burglaries we have here. In any case, I am not advocating that householders have guns, I am suggesting that the idea of reasonable force be re-examined/scrapped as it gives intruders the upper hand in any given situation. ie. the householder is constantly forced to be on the defensive but the criminal can 'up the ante' at any point.
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Unless I am very much mistaken, the Americans also have a higher murder rate.
Also, if you take away the idea of Reasonable Force, what do you replace it with? If it is just scrapped, you will eventually end up with somebody getting killed because they nicked something insignificant.
Thirdly, if a burglar knows a householder is armed (which if the reasonable force rules are relaxed, they may actually assume), what is to stop them taking a gun (or other weapon) and killing (or otherwise incapacitating) the householder before they burgle?