But there is the panic factor. Guy was attacked by 3 in his own house. How can you keep calm and react proportionally, when the uncertainty of the outcome can make you think they're gonna kill you. If this happened in the US, the guy in the house had the right to shoot them, just because they trespassed on his property, amirite.
In April, a 35-year-old man from Hyvinkää, a town just 50km north of the Finnish capital, Helsinki, heard a knock on the front door of his suburban house and rushed to open it. As soon as he unlocked it, three strangers rushed in and launched at him, toting baseball bats and a gun. The man retreated to the kitchen, where he found a knife and with it was able to overpower the intruders, two men and one woman.
The homeowner has been convicted of “excessive self-defense and attempted manslaughter,” Helsinki news reports. He will serve an unconditional sentence for four years and two months, which he has to spend in prison. The man also has to pay damages to his attackers, with the fine totaling €21,000 (US$23,000). The newspaper does not provide information on the severity of injuries sustained by the home-invaders, however, it is known that they survived the event.
The attackers were also convicted for felony home invasion and assault, yet their punishments are much less harsh.
All three received one-year-and-two-month conditional sentences, which is similar to probation or house arrest in Finland, depending on the case. The offender serves the sentence outside of jail, but has to follow strict jail-like rules.
The trio was also ordered to pay the homeowner damages, but their combined fine was ruled to be €3,000 (US$3,300).
Unless he assraped them with an incandescent metal rod and forced them to sing [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Fgp-KihIA[/video] with shards of broken glass in their mouths, I don't see what could justify this disproportionate verdict.