MCP wrote:
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> Householders can kill burglars and not face prosecution as long as
they use
> only "reasonable force", the Director of Public Prosecutions said
yesterday.

Such hazy language just gives them leeway to prosecute whom they like
and let others walk.  Golly, I wonder whom they'll prosecute and whom
they'll let walk.

Firing on an intruder isn't the best thing to do anyway, because he's
probably armed, and one doesn't want to find out who has better aim.
It's best if he doesn't know you are there, so that he takes what he
wants and leaves, preferably as the cops are arriving.  To guard
against intruders, it's best to have a security alarm that
automatically calls a service or the cops.  Having a dog also helps,
even if it's a small yap dog, because the noise will spook him off.
Anything that makes noise will scare him away, but if you find him,
he'll feel threatened, which is why a lot of people are killed by
discovered intruders.

As for women breaking into your house to steal your kids, that's not
likely.  They're more likely to try an abduction from a public place,
because they'll be too afraid to enter your home uninvited.  

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