[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Gnist

These are very good examples of exactly how dreadful modern day rule-oriented society can be. There's no sense of justice and no principle of justice at the base of the law. It is at best plain arbitrary.

The rationale given is that even if the weapon is legal and you've shot dead the criminal in your home with your wife and children slept, so that it is in self-defense beyond any reasonable doubt, you are not going to escape the nightmare of going through a court for a "murder" (even if in self-defense).

Worse, your name is going to be public through the court records and nothing assures you that the family or colleagues of the criminal are going to agree that you killed him to defend your family and your person, and they might want "revenge". Or, if you leave him wounded, he will be put in the street soon and might want a "revenge".

What does logics tell you then? Clearly that if you shoot a criminal in your home to protect your family, and if your don't kill him and get rid of the corpse yourself without telling anyone, you have done only half way to protect your family or, worse, you have even put your family in a danger.

Twisted, isn't it?

Originally Posted by Breha

Once a policeman told me confidentially: remember, it is better a bad trial than a beautiful funeral.

Yes. But it is still better long hours digging a deep hole (or other methods that I won't mention for how macabre they sound), than any bad (or good) trial. When there is blood involved, there is no such thing as a "good" trial.