ExmouthExile
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- Feb 11, 2005
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Question : and someone on here will know the answer as you're a bright bunch (really)....
You're in a cafe, stood at the back. What you genuinely perceive to be a terrorist armed with a machete starts swinging it around, narrowly misses a couple of people, and you honestly think he's going to start killing.
In the heat of the moment you get the red mist, think 'f±ck you jihadi', pick up a steak knife, leap over three tables and sink it into his eye socket. He flops to the ground, dead.
Have you just committed murder? Will you have to stand trial for that, and get 10 years for 'manslaughter' at best?
Where would you stand, legally?
With today's judicial system, you'd probably get 25 years and a court order to pay his family compensation for the pain and suffering you inflicted upon them.