IronBear
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Joined: 6/19/2005 From: Beenleigh, Qld, Australia Status: offline
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I'll add to this Panda, relating to the Queensland Criminal Code with refers to such killings as "Legal Homicide" No leaving out the incidents where a Security or Police Officer shoots and kills a villain to save a life, there is another senario type covering ordinary every day people who may take the lifer of someone who is threatening the lives of the person involved, or threatening the lives of wives, sisters parents, grand parents, aunties and uncles, cousins and nephews or children all being either in the care of the person or in their company. A weaponm doesn't actually have to be procuces but the person conserned needs to have a belief that the villain meant to carry out the threat and has the means to do so. Added to this the person conserned, must react instabitly and must be in physical reach so that for exasmple a strike can be made without moving toward the person making the threats. If you have to move into the contact zone or pick up a weapon of any side you have not committed justifiable homicide unless the offender is actually threatening with a weapon. A real life example refers to a security course I had to do to me licenced as a security offiver & instructer. The lecturer made the mistake in using me to demonstrate this law by leaning over me and telling me graphically what he was going to do to the arse of my yoyung son with a ber bottle. I reacted (even though I knew this was a demonstration, but my training took over) by standing and using a double handed clasp on his kneck droped to my knees driving his jaw into the table. He ended up with a smashed jaw and had me ready to deliver a killing strike to his neck before I realised what had happened. As an after note: I wasn't either tossed out of the course or sued but was congratulated by the company and ended uop dux of the class.. The chap whose jaw I broke and I are good friends and he never used that demonstration again. I have instructed many people as part of self defence courses, that if they do serious dammang to another in the degfense of their life, all they need to say and keep repeating,: "I was in fear of my life" Our Police are well versed in this and if convinced that the villain was at fault they oft assist the victim in getting through any criminal cases and the coroner's court.
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Iron Bear Master of Bruin Cottage http://www.bruincottage.org Your attitude, words & actions are yours. Take responsibility for them and the consequences they incur. D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F.
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