Cap'n;
"you havent answered my first question?"
What would I do in your hypothetical case? I quite honestly have no idea - what would you do?
I have no intention of entering yet another cul-de-sac of an argument with you, so let me ask you some questions and leave it at that.
Is it your intention that if anybody came into your house in order to commit a crime, you would to kill or maim them?
Do you feel that the law should allow you to kill or maim anybody who came into your house to commit a crime?
Do you keep a weapon handy in order to kill or maim anybody who comes into your house to commit a crime?
Do you think that property is worth more than the life or well-being of any human being?
If your answer to any of these is yes - we have nothing to say to each other - simple as that.
So far you have dealt in hypotheticals - I have given you my view, with examples which I could add to endlessly, (including my having been detained as a suspect for a crime because I was in the comany of a Traveller - neither of us were charged) of the situation as it stands.
If you claim that my description of the situation here in Ireland is incorrect, challenge it - otherwise, please deal in facts; I collect fairy stories, I don't believe them.
Jim Carroll
PS Juries give verdicts, not judges.