Messed Up: London Man Arrested After Killing a Burglar In Self-Defense

America isn’t a perfect country, but it’s far better than other first world nations across the pond. Namely, ones that have odd speech laws and backwards views about self defense.

Recently, the UK sentenced a man to prison for simply making a Nazi joke, and now they’ve arrested another for defending his own home with lethal force.

According to the Daily Mail, Richard Osborn-Brooks is a 78-year-old man who was woken up by two burglars in his south-east London home while he was sleeping next to his wife. One of the burglars forced Brooks into his kitchen, wielding a screwdriver as a weapon. The near-octogenarian attacked one of the burglars, a 38-year-old male, and reportedly stabbed him repeatedly with his own screwdriver.

The second burglar apparently fled the scene, and the stabbed burglar was found dead in the street after he too had attempted to escape.

According to the Daily Mail, witnesses described the escape attempt, which ended in the stabbed burglar being abandoned by his cohorts:

Gordon Williams, 44, saw the man on the ground with a stab wound to the chest before another man tried, unsuccessfully, to get him into a white van. The van then drove off before police and paramedics then arrived at the scene.

Mr Williams said: ‘He was a white bloke about my age. I had just gone to to bed and I heard moaning and groaning. I thought it was someone drunk but I looked out of the window.

‘There was a black guy in a white van. I thought he was trying to drag him into the van, but then he drove off down the road.’

Gordon said he then went out of the house to the injured man and added: ‘I just tried to reassure him. His t-shirt was covered in blood.’

It should have been a case of “all’s well that ends well,” but the UK’s backward system of laws wasn’t going to just chalk one up for the good guys. According to the Daily Mail, Brooks was arrested on suspicion of murder:

The homeowner was initially detained on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm but was later arrested on suspicion of murder. The case has been compared to that of Tony Martin, who was jailed for killing an intruder at his home in 1999.

By all accounts given by his neighbors, Brooks is a good and friendly man. What’s more, they all seem confused about his arrest.

As well they should be. Whatever system of laws punishes a person from defending his or her home, loved ones, and livelihood from danger is a backward system and should be disposed of immediately. If someone can’t defend themselves from danger, with lethal force if need be, then that society is not a safe society.

A society in which a normal citizen can deal death when death is rightfully and fairly called for is a society in which those who would participate in evil will be forced to weigh their life against their deed. When self-preservation is part of the equation it will more often than not take precedence over whatever crime the criminal wishes to commit. Safety comes passively from the knowledge that the society approves of, and even applauds death in the event of evil.

What Britain is telling its citizens is that defending oneself is off the table. What it’s telling its criminals is that this society is theirs for the taking.

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