Monday, September 3, 2012

Farm tenant arrested after burglars shot was 'plagued by break-ins'


This is what the United States has to look forward to if they allow their gun ownership rights to be taken away.
You to will have NO RIGHTS, to defend your home and family, but rather WILL be seen as a criminal, for trying to do so.
What exactly, brand of justice, is that?

Yesterday the businessman and his wife were arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm. Four men, understood to be the suspected burglars, were also arrested.

The case will reignite the debate over a householder’s right to defend his property, which began in the late 1990s after the farmer Tony Martin shot two burglars at his remote Norfolk home. In 1999, Martin fired at Brendan Fearon, 29, and Fred Barras, 16, after they broke into the house in Emneth Hungate.

Three shots were fired, Barras was hit in the back and despite escaping through a window died moments later. Martin was convicted of murder and jailed for life, which was reduced on appeal to manslaughter and five years’ jail.

David Cameron in a moment of political spew, promising that he would make sure that things were different, and as you can see by the lead in the article, he has done nothing.
Politicians will say anything to ensure favorability, even if they have no intention of doing anything at all.

In 2009, the millionaire businessman Munir Hussain fought back with a metal pole and a cricket bat against a knife-wielding burglar who tied up his family at their home in Buckinghamshire. Hussain was jailed for two and a half years, despite his attacker being spared prison.

Appeal judges reduced the sentence to a year’s jail, suspended.

The case prompted David Cameron to announce that home owners and shopkeepers would have the right to protect themselves against burglars and robbers.

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