Where Great Britain Used To Be
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February 15th, 2016 at 11:27 pm
At this point I’m half surprised people don’t get charged with Assault with an Offensive Weapon or similar if they accidentally cut themselves with a knife. They seem pretty determined to ban anything that could feasibly cause injury, and yet a worryingly large number of people see absolutely no problem with this.
February 16th, 2016 at 10:22 am
I’m not advocating banning them, but as an airline pilot myself I can tell you it’s a big problem. And not just in the UK.
February 16th, 2016 at 3:20 pm
There are two competing aims with the laws in Britain. One is to deter the law-abiding from self defense, and this desire is heinous. The other is a vain attempt to stop the criminals, youths especially, from their ever more ingenious assaults upon others.
In the first aim, Britain is succeeding marvelously, to the detriment of individual human rights. All it takes is a few well documented prosecutions with ridiculously severe penalties to deter honest folk from self defense.
The second aim is not so successful, because in Britain one frequently gets a stern note as the only punishment for actual criminal violence against other people.
So on the one hand, no self defense is allowed. Although the claim is that “proportionate” resistance to attacks is ok, if you win you obviously used didsporportionate violence against the attacker and are subject to arrest, conviction and real punishment).
On the other hand, if a mob of young thugs decides to target you with laser pointers and then attacks you, they might each get arrested, convicted and have a note made in a file that they were arrested & convicted, for use next time or the time after that when they assault someone else.
My Montana-based brother in law, a Parks Dept supervisor, described the best way people handled inconsistent applications of severe game laws as “shoot, shovel and shut up.” I wonder how many Brits follow a similar protocol (not using a gun, of course).