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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
With these kinds of laws, I'm seeing...
- many abusive husbands being killed (culled?)--expeditiously (execution style?);
- chaotic club shootouts becoming more common;
- instances of road rage ending in tears;
- the collapse of the American tourism industry;
- a spike in imperfect self-defense sentencing;
- manslaughter, womanslaughter, childslaughter;
- broken lives, broken families--the disappearance of the middle class;
- gun-free gated communities, where prosperity feeds off the blood of the downtrodden; and
- many other prophetic visions of a paranoid American public.
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It's a good thing crime rates go down with liberalization of gun laws and none of that has happened.
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Originally Posted by Martian
Again, I simply do not understand how you could possibly believe that your car is equal in value to the life of another human being. The very thought is alien to me.
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My property is worth what I paid for it. If someone robs me, they are telling me through their actions that they are willing to kill me to take what is mine. If someone is willing to kill me, I have the right to preempt that action with all necessary force. The only way to do that is to use the means of protection that is most likely to produce instant incapacitation and halt the attack. The way to do that is to shoot them first. I'm not thrilled with the idea of killing someone, but if I have to save my own ass by killing someone who goes around threatening to kill others if they don't hand over money, society isn't exactly losing a productive, contributing member.