Firearms yes or no

Sailor Steve · 03-31-07, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

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Originally Posted by waste gate

How I or anyone else comes to peace with taking someones life is not really the issue. Reasonable force is only an issue for law enforcement., those folks have been trained in such issues. I'm talking about it's my life or yours, self defense. When I am dead the comfort that my killer will be brought to justice isn't much of a cosnolation.

In a case like your life or his, then I can see that perhaps you have to be brutal, but killing is never right or justified. In the case you describe then I think you would have to be certain that your life was at risk of being lost before you could say, "it was him or me"

A burgler prowling about in your house does not automatically mean you will be killed. In which case you don't have any reason to shoot that person.

How good a martial-artist are you? I'm nearing 60 years of age, and I'm sick a lot of the time. A burglar comes in my house and I should challenge him to an honorable battle? I don't think so.

Or, as a strong trained martial-artist friend of mine said a long time ago, "I have a wife and three small children. My job isn't to win a fight, it's to keep them safe. If someone comes into my home without my permission, I don't care if it's just to ask for directions; if I die there's nobody left for them. Where my family's life is at stake, my job is to protect them any way I can. Period."

You're right; a burglar in my house doesn't automatically mean my life is in danger. How am I to know that until it's too late?