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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Keep in mind that this varies drastically state-to-state. In Colorado, for example, you can use deadly force to protect property in your own home:
And your "scenario" demonstrates a clear misunderstanding of a responsible gun owner. In your scenario, I wouldn't even draw a gun, provided I was even carrying it.
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You need to look up the word "
facetious." I've only met a few "responsible" gun-owners (interestingly, they don't have concealed weapons permits because they don't carry a gun around all the time). I've met more gun owners who do stupid things with guns: like leave them out and loaded when children are present; wave them around in traffic threatening anyone who cuts them off (I'll never ride with him again); etc.
However, I thought it was OK to defend yourself by killing someone if "you feel" your life is in danger? I certainly felt that my life was in danger as I looked at the guys fist coming at me for the second time.
How would you have handled it (in reality, not my fictitious Hollywood hyped-up version)? The same way I did: just let it go and not instigate further violence? I could have done pretty much anything at that point. I was shocked, confused and angry all at the same time. However, I kept a cool head and did not chase after them; I did not yell at them. I just watched calmly as they ran off.
How
would YOU have handled it?
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At approximately 9:00 PM on May 13, 2008, a 47 year old woman reported that she was walking from an apartment complex to a nearby shopping center in the 3300 block of N. Academy Blvd. when she was approached from behind by two unknown males. The woman was subsequently knocked to the ground when one of the males struck her with a club-like object on the back of her neck. A third unknown male then drove up in an unknown make older model white car, and the victim was forced into the backseat area where she was choked and pinned to the floorboard area. The victim was then driven to an unknown location where the three male parties sexually assaulted her for a period of approximately 30 minutes. The victim was then driven back to the area of the original attack, and she was released at about 9:45 PM. The victim the walked to a nearby hospital where officers were notified of the attack and she was subsequently treated blunt trauma injuries to the back of her neck, her abdomen, and her back.
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What would you have done differently?
Instead of quoting statistics and further sensationalizing the whole "crime ridden United States" thing ... why don't you tell us how it could have been prevented. Or how YOU would have prevented it.
Do you think a gun and a few self-defense classes would have helped here?