Reply #4: I'm not taking your point

[iverglas]

You were a victim of violence? Me too. Glad we're both here.

If it was an attack that you believed endangered your life or threatened serious bodily harm, you would have been perfectly entitled under any law of the last century or more to use force to defend against it, if you had no reasonable alternative.

You would not have needed a law that prohibited the court from even considering your justification for using force, and forced the court to find that you were justified even if you quite simply and plainly were not.

So this law doesn't seem to have anything to do with your situation, or the situation of any person who genuinely fears injury or death from an assault by a person illegally in their home.

This law is designed to make sure that people who use force against someone illegally in their home -- which we all know means "shoots them dead" -- never have to justify their actions to anyone.

Legalized murder is another thing to call it.