Post by Markanite on Sept 7, 2022 13:28:09 GMT -5
Right To Self-Defence
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Category: Civil Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Tinhampton
Believing that it would be highly inappropriate to criminalise those who seek to protect their life and liberty in the face of violence, the General Assembly hereby:
defines, for the purpose of this resolution:
a "LEO" as an on-duty law enforcement officer,
"harm" as imminent and unlawful death, life-threatening injury, or violation of bodily sovereignty suffered by a person, and
"self-defence" as physical violence a person inflicts against a third party in order to protect themselves or another person from harm which that third party threatens to cause at the time that violence was inflicted,
requires that member states (subject to prior and standing international law, future international law restricting the use of force by LEOs, and Articles c and d):
recognise actions constituting self-defence as fully legal,
allow any person suspected of a crime involving physical violence against a third party to affirm that that violence constitutes self-defence, and
only convict a person pleading as such if their affirmation has been disproven in accordance with the respective member's ordinary evidentiary standards,
recommends that members do not recognise physical violence against a LEO seeking to lawfully carry out an arrest as self-defence,
demands that members do not recognise as self-defence:
any physical violence a person exercises despite knowing about and being able to successfully use non-violent means of deterrence or aversion (as legislated by individual members) that promise similar immediate relief of the threat of harm,
any use of force that is disproportionate to the threat of harm,
any action a person takes in response to a threat of harm which they themselves deliberately induced, and
any action constituting (or aiding in) torture,
clarifies that a person who earnestly believes that they act under the legal protections for self-defence remains entitled to them regardless of Articles c and d(i-iii), and
encourages the passage of future legislation on self-defence education.
Co-author: Tepertopia
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