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In my town we recently had a murder- a 50 year old grandmother working as a night clerk at a hotel was robbed- she handed over the money, and was then raped,sodomized, and brutally murdered by her 21 year old attacker......
Wil- you are clearly articulate, intelligent, and have as I understand it, been involved in violent incidents- and have chosen a radically different belief system than most of the people that I know who have been involved in similar situations - I respect your convictions, but having dealt with more than a few violently inclined people, I feel that your approach is naive- You, I fear, give people too much credit for being reasonable, perhaps because you are reasonable- To me, a person who chooses to break into my house is a mortal threat to my family, and I cannot trust them to stop at a point that a reasonable professional criminal might- like any responsible gun owner, I do not fire blindly, nor am I a bloodthirsty killer- I will always identify my target and what is behind it (including my neighbors houses) and given that a burglar does not attempt to attack me when confronted, I will gladly hold them at gunpoint for the police- But I will not allow someone to endanger my family so I can claim the moral high ground- hell, in my own mid sized college town, 2/3's of the home invasions we have had resulted in the homeowner being killed- not great odds for me letting them take the T.V.
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