If someone breaks into your home while you are there, that person is a potential threat to your safety. If the same person carries a weapon of some sort the threat is real rather than potential. You are entitled to respond if you feel that there's an imminent danger of being harmed, but how you respond is important.

Shooting someone because they have broken into your home is certainly not justified, neither is any form of unprovoked violence - that turns you into the aggressor. All this macho talk about the violent responses people would make if they discovered a burglar in their home is immature posturing, and no court is going to sanction it. You are not entitled to beat someone senseless because he came into your house to steal things. You are entitled to protect yourself if you are attacked, or are in fear of being attacked, but you must only use reasonable force, given the circumstances.

You shouldn't have to think too long about it to realise that it's common sense.

Every body as a right to protect themselves and there family, property is another matter. Certainly not for taking someone's life for

Grey Goo

Everything in my house is insured, I'm not (as in no insurance company can replace me, but they can replace my TV etc).

I feel that if I just let any intruders help themselves, everything will be fine, 99.9 times out of 100 burglars are just looking for stuff to sell for drugs.

I'll have pretty clear CCTV footage of them entering the house, and the footage is recorded off site, on a server at work, and mirrored to another server in Europe somewhere...

"All this macho talk about the violent responses people would make if they discovered a burglar in their home is immature posturing"

I totally disagree, I have looked down the barrel of a sawn off shotgun during a jewellers robbery and I can tell you adrenalin takes over and a natural reaction is self preservation, a basic instinct of flight or fight, what is more I do not believe that anyone can predicts how they would react unless themselves or family are threatened until they have been in that situation.

All I can add is, I hope they get a few people like WTM on their jury.