Well. It has certainly taken a long time for me to get to this point - praising a tory idea - but well done to the tories for stating that they will free householders from the restrictions of so-called 'reasonable force' when confronting burglars in their homes. (Provided of course that Cameron actually follows through on this which, given his duplicitous record, is by no means certain!)Of course such ideas have to be part of broader thinking.
This could only work if armed burglars were to be given substantially heavier sentences than at present. I do not want to hear such lowlifes claiming that they "needed to carry some protection" whilst plundering our homes and businesses, which are the arguments so many of the same currently use for carrying knives on the streets. Undoubtedly, sentences for that are pathetically inadequate.
Furthermore, care must be taken that enemies are not lured to households in order to be murdered under the guise of 'protecting property'.
