{"id":31867,"date":"2012-09-03T16:51:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T20:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31867"},"modified":"2012-09-03T18:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T22:06:03","slug":"another-reason-to-be-glad-youre-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31867","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason to Be Glad You’re an American"},"content":{"rendered":"

“An Englishman’s home is his castle.” That principle has a long history – back to Roman times, in fact.\u00a0 And it was perhaps most clearly expressed by Blackstone in Merry Olde England in his Commentaries on the Laws of England<\/a> (Book 4, Chapter 16). But it looks like it’s no longer true – at least not in England.<\/p>\n

Seems that a man and his wife were renting a farm house at\u00a0Melton Mowbray, Leics.\u00a0 They had been victims of a series of recent break-ins. The last break-in occurred while the man and his wife were at home.<\/p>\n

Confronting the would-be burglars, the man grabbed a lawfully-owned firearm. He apparently fired at the four intruders.\u00a0 They left.<\/p>\n

His aim was apparently reasonably good.\u00a0 Two of the four intruders later sought medical treatment for non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. The police arrested all four of them.<\/p>\n

But it seems the man’s marksmanship was his undoing.\u00a0 The police also arrested the farmer and his wife<\/a> on “suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.”<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time in recent years a man has been arrested for defending himself or his family in his own home in the United Kingdom. In fact, on at least two previous occasions the individual defending his home\/family has ended up convicted and sentenced to prison.<\/p>\n

Blackstone must be spinning in his grave. I’m certainly glad some of my ancestors valued their freedom and caught a boat heading west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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