crap.
Speaking of which – hmm, maybe you are better off not knowing about that.
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Only for bad people.
Stalin and Mao were socialists and they killed way more people than all the conservatives did.
If that is directed at me, I only object to illegal immigration. After all, I am a legal immigrant myself.
I don’t think being able to own handguns and shoot people meaning to harm me is a bad thing. It’s one of the things I envy about the US.
In my country I have to let bad people maim me and then complain to the police, as if they are going to do anything about it.
What about people with big dogs on their property that will attack an intruder ( that’s what they are programmed to do by genetics )?
You know, the ones on properties with Beware of the Dog signs.
Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot – all breathed air, drank water, and digested proteins. Well, sir, you don’t want to be anything like them, do you?
However, they only recently banned handgun ownership. So now, only criminals get to be able to shoot people.
I’m pretty sure that criminals were regarded as bad people and treated accordingly for most of those 2 centuries, unlike now, when they seem to have more rights than law abiding citizens.
Nah, just since Germaine was let loose on an unsuspecting world. She has a lot to answer for. She’s pretty PO that she didn’t succeed in her main aim though.
I’m not Northern Piper, but this is the case: Bird v Holbrook - I went looking for it the minute I saw something about booby traps. It’s one of the first criminal law cases we learned.
Not it’s after your Blackstone commentaries, and it deals with the setting of spring guns without notice. If you set the trap with notice, you were ok.
Was not about you, it was aimed at the snarky ones who were giving you a hard time about your question.
Oh, I misunderstood. Thanks.
To distinguish Bird from the 1861 Act, the trap was in the garden, not within the dwelling, and I don’t believe it was at night. I’m not sure that notice would be required at that time for a dwelling sealed up at nightfall. Perhaps the law presumed that anyone entering illicitly in that situation was commiting burglary, and therefore not entitled to the duty of care a trespasser should have?
My dad set the notice without the trap! He put up a sign saying “Trapguns Installed,” but never actually rigged up a gun.
The Sheriff told him to take the sign down.
You poor thing. Would you regard it as insensitive and prying if I asked you to share with us just how many times you have been maimed, and what injuries you have sustained?
Please say you wouldn’t.
There’s nothing like a half dozen Bouncing Bettys to keep those damned kids offa my lawn!
:: shaking my cane at all of you young juvenile delinquents!::
Yeah, I’m talking about YOU! :mad:
I’m pretty sure it’s legal to have range markers/stakes laid out on your lawn.
I only “boobytrap” my property when i’m home alone.
wink, wink. nudge, nudge.
We have a sign at the start of our drive that makes the brown & purple guys leave packages right there, the cowards. Most friends the first time they arrive, call on their cell phones to see if it is alright to come up even though we invited them & know when they are coming.
I like that sign… 
I don’t think so - from memory, it was a trespassing case, and the guy climbed the fence to chase a cockrell of his that had gotten away. The point was the notice of the spring gun and I think (Northern Piper should correct me) that it changed the law. I should therefore think that notice (remembering this is 1861 and English common law, so outside what we’re discussing here) would have thereafter been required, even in a sealed dwelling-house in the nighttime.
But again, I’m happy to be corrected.