What would you do if you caught someone breaking into your property?

Imagine, you're in bed sleeping with your woman. You've got your small child asleep in the other bedroom. You hear a rustling at your door and some movement... someone has broken into your property!

What do you do?
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Well, if you are in the UK you can use 'reasonable force'. To me reasonable force means going ALL OUT on that dirty criminal. Defend your property by any means necessary!

I personally believe that if someone breaks into your house you have the right to fuck them up unconditionally. Who knows what danger you might be in? You'd have to assume that someone breaking into your house is going to be tooled up and ready to deal with the person living there, rightfully defending their family and the goods they've probably worked hard for.

This is taken from the Crown Prosecution Service website:

Anyone can use reasonable force to protect themselves or others, or to carry out an arrest or to prevent crime. You are not expected to make fine judgements over the level of force you use in the heat of the moment. 

So long as you only do what you honestly and instinctively believe is necessary in the heat of the moment, that would be the strongest evidence of you acting lawfully and in self-defence. This is still the case if you use something to hand as a weapon.

As a general rule, the more extreme the circumstances and the fear felt, the more force you can lawfully use in self-defence.

So there you have it in black and white. In the UK if someone breaks in, use whatever force necessary to protect yourself and your family. Might wanna start by getting yourself one of these!

And if you are in the USA I guess you'll do what you do best and shoot dat motherfucka!

~ Cee