Quote Originally Posted by Morden
Agreed, but your first sentence echoes the concern that I expressed. If you think you have to shoot in self-defence, your future liberty may depend on the whims of a jury. You make a snap decision the correctness of which may be rejected in Court.
Well you see morden, in the Uk and europe as a whole, we have this rather quaint that one of the fundamental rights of a citizen is that of life, And in the UK this is taken very seriously with no individual or organisation possessing the right to kill, only the right to use reasonable force. In this environment it seems perfectly reasonable that someone killing in self defence should have to put their case to a jury if there was the slightest doubt to their claim of reasonable force.

^I do believe that such an assassins charter exists in thailand regarding the killing of people on your home premises at night.