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"The question becomes, are you better off being killed by the attacker?"
What the fuck?
Excuse my language, but I am in no way, shape, or form conversant with any individual that feels that they would be better off allowing someone to kill them rather than taking the chance of killing their attacker simply because they might have some tough emotional consequences. I am doubly certain that anyone willing to contemplate carrying a gun is even more unlikely to have such an insipid and self-defeating idea rummaging around in their head.
There is no equation wherein I would rather die than take the chance of killing some criminal bent on killing me or mine. That is not macho bravado either, that is simple survival of self talking. If you do not possess a similar will to survive, please do your species a favour and do not breed. That is not a trait that is conducive to the continued survival of the human race as a whole.
This is not intended as a flame, please do not take it as such, though I realize it sounds like it. Honestly, survival of the species is terribly important. Regardless of how you or anyone else feels about guns or self-defense, defense of self is hard-wired into any successful higher organism, and is generally trumped only by defense of offspring.
The "you" being used above is not intended to be aimed at the poster to whom I am responding, but is aimed at the hypothetical individual that is so pathetic as to willing to die rather than to fight to continue their own existence.
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