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  • It is more nuanced than that. I does not necessarily have to be equal to the threat, but must be the minimum means required to stop the attack that is available to you at the time.

    So if someone runs at you with a knife and all you have is a gun, you’re not expected to drop the gun and start looking for a knife to defend yourself with. But if someone who is half your size comes at your bare handed, you shouldn’t need to do much more than use measured open handed techniques like pushing them away. Someone this much smaller isn’t much of a threat and there is no need to pummel that person into a paste to stop their attract. Your actions shouldb also immediately stop as soon as the threat is no longer active and you absolutely shouldn’t be allowed to use it as an excuse to cause unnecessary harm.


  • There is a lot of information and nuance in this that article that we’re not getting that could make this a good or a bad call.

    You definitely don’t want a home occupant to be allowed to open fire indiscriminately in the back of someone who set foot on their property and then turned around to run away the moment they realized the occupants were still home like you see in the States. Or even worse, people who use the self-defence law as an excuse to shoot some kid who went in their yard to recover their ball.

    But on the other hand, you don’t want to make it too complicated or restrictive either. There are a lot of unknowns in a situation like this. Is the intruder armed? Is the intruder alone? How well can they fight? These are often questions you will only know the answers of in hindsight, long after the time at which a critical decision had to be made. If someone breaks into someone’s house and does not turn around to run away the moment the occupant(s) make their presence known to the intruder, I can’t think of many more hurdles we should put in their way of defending themselves.