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tlambert | December 9, 2003These are extracts from stories about homicides in England found by searching Factiva for "self-defence and (burglar or robber)".
No Charge Over Death Of Burglar.
By Duncan Campbell Crime Correspondent. 23 January 1996 The Guardian A businessman will not be prosecuted over the death of a burglar he tackled at his home, the Crown Prosecution Service announced yesterday.
The service said there was insufficient evidence to bring any charge against Hungarian-born Niklos "Nick" Baungartner, from the village of Ockbrook in Derbyshire.
Mr Baungartner confronted Robert Ingham,…
tlambert | May 18, 2003Jim Henley is still concerned about the possibility that the BCS figures might be cooked. I still consider this possibility extremely unlikely because it would require some sort of conspiracy between the statisticians (who don't have an interest in crime figures showing some particular result) and the top level people (who do have such an interest). With this many people involved, it would be quite likely that someone who blow the whistle and a major scandal would result. Also, if they were cooking the figures, they would have cooked the police statistics as well. (Recall that…
tlambert | October 23, 2002 Joyce Lee Malcolm has an article in Reason online entitled Gun Control's Twisted Outcome. In that article she claims"And in the four years from 1997 to 2001, the rate of violent crime [in England] more than doubled."
and asserts that this increase was caused by British gun control.
However if you look at the official English crime statistics: Crime in England and Wales 2001/2002 and go to the section on violent crime you will find the following:"Estimates from the BCS reveal large and consistent falls in violent crime overall since 1995."
"Longer-term trends in violence…
tlambert | June 13, 1996Clayton Cramer wrote:
"The Offences Against The Person Act of 1861 only allows use of deadly
force against an attacker similarly armed.
Otherwise a firearm can only be used
with the intent of frightening an attacker -- even if the warning
shot accidentally hits the attacker.
For practical purposes, guns are seldom used defensively in
Britain because there are so few circumstances where it is
legal to do so. I doubt that a rape victim could use a gun
against a rapist in Britain unless he had a knife or a gun.
J.B. Hill, Weapons Law, (London: Waterlow Publishers, 1989),
p. 60.
The Nit Nurse…