Marc's+Argument+Writing

Self-defense Many legal systems allow self-defense as a partial or total defense to a charge in a criminal case. However, typically there is some kind of requirement that the purported act of self-defense bear some proportionate relationship to the act against which it is used. For this reason, it is often very hard to have an argument that a killing has taken place in self-defense. Reasonable fear of immediate harm on such a scale that the killing was an appropriate response.  Individuals should be able to protect themselves and their own land. Self-defense is about the protection of your self, your family and your property. People who break the law challenge the ideas of personal autonomy and private property upon which liberal democratic societies depend. It is therefore appropriate that, for example, those whom they attack are able to stand up for themselves in line with these core values. This is especially true when it comes to violent personal crime or crime committed on private property-when a criminal has attacked a victim bodily or invaded his home, why should that criminal expect to be treated well. Self-defense is an inevitable feature for any legal system. Arguably the whole discussion about the self-defense is something of a storm in a teacup-a very minor controversy. It stands to reason that almost all situations. After all, it would make a mockery of the law if criminals’ victims were never supported in doing to avoid their own suffering.  Self-defense is appropriate as recognition of failure of crime prevention systems. Most people would not choose to fight potentially violent criminals and would rather that they were not victims of the crime in the first place, and that the police were able to respond swiftly to a crime in progress. For many citizens, the only reasons they would engage in an act of self-defense in any case would de to fill the gaps left by the failure of the authorities and penal systems to act in this way. It is wrong to deny citizens adequate police protection and then refuse them, the liberty of protecting themselves instead of when attacked. Allowing self-defense sends out a strong message discouraging crime. Allowing self-defense can be seen as siding with victims of crime over those who commit it. This is particularly achieved when court rooms make it clear that criminals who break into other properties have forfeited their rights, which householders who feel under threat are entitled to use even lethal force to confront intruders, and that the courts will back them in such actions. This is important because it is what they do.  I think citizens should be able to defend themselves against criminal activities. Such as, it is not always possible to the police and expect the to turn up immediately, so therefore it is reasonable, that citizens can defend themselves, family and property if all possible.