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Is it legal to shoot looters on sight?
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Is it just me or are 90% of the looters tonally challenged?
Why, have you heard them singing?'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
I think it was King John of England, in 1297.
You're supposed to punish people according to law. If that law includes the death sentence, by all means... after a trial by jury.
Must have done it from his grave then
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Must have done it from his grave then
Dratted typo's. This is what happens when you are doing more than one thing at once
The 1297 version is the important one, though, because it is the one that is still part of english law. “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
Dratted typo's. This is what happens when you are doing more than one thing at once The 1297 version is the important one, though, because it is the one that is still part of english law.
I am with you, the amended Magna Carta, I think it was the Barons who put that together, to protect themselves. John was, shall we say, encouraged to sign it 'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Um - we haven't actually got any water cannons in this country. There are about 4 or so in Northern Ireland but the police over there would be loath to send them over here as the marching season is coming up.The forest would be very silent if no birds sang except for the birds that sang the best0
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Or is that just a wartime thing?
I think it might be illegal to shoot them without a licence, otherwise you could be fined up to £25Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop0 -
chucknorris wrote: »I think it might be illegal to shoot them without a licence, otherwise you could be fined up to £25
Is that £25 each chav or for a set time period?Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
Started third business 25/06/2016
Son born 13/09/2015
Started a second business 03/08/2013
Officially the owner of my own business since 13/01/20120 -
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EU says it is
Article 2 European Convention on Human Rights
1. Everyone's right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law.
2. Deprivation of life shall not be regarded as inflicted in contravention of this article when it results from the use of force which is no more than absolutely necessary:
a) in defence of any person from unlawful violence;
b) in order to effect a lawful arrest or to prevent the escape of a person lawfully detained;
c) in action lawfully taken for the purpose of quelling a riot or insurrection.0
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