I just cannot imagine a society which has allowed itself to become so civilized that the basic right of personal defense and defense of one's home and loved ones has become a crime. Further, how can the citizenry of such a society so calmly accept such an unnatural state of affairs?
We may well differ on the degree of force appropriate to a given threat, but to just fall back and allow the violent to bear it away is incomprehensible to an American. We must indeed be a violent society!...Geo
Without wishing to insult any of the british people on here (there are parts of ireland just as bad) but civilised isn't a term that could be used to describe a lot of towns and cities , salford, rotherham, bradford fer instance, in the uk.
The pc liberals, Tony Blair in particular, viewed criminals as unfortunates who had no choice but to commit crimes. In fact the sort of people who would probably say George Digweed was to blame for having nice things in his house was more to blame for this incident, "victim blaming", look it up.