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marshaul wrote:
You're still missing the point, snake021.
There's really no difference between the "gun confiscation" scenario and a normal self-defense one.
Hypothetically, say I did need to use my firearms to defend my ownership thereof. Just as with self-defense, I will not shoot to kill. I will shoot to stop the threat. I no more wish death on an American soldier following orders than a criminal. Once the threat is stopped, I stop shooting and hope nobody died. Realistically, armed resistance by civilians will lead to death, but we should not wish it. If we can defend out rights with no bloodshed, should we not?
Remember, nobody here is talking about letting persons get away with crimes; we're just suggesting that, in the event one of us is forced to pull the trigger, we hope our bullets stop the threat, but we do not hope to kill. Yet, if our assailant dies, then so be it.
No. It's you, still not getting
MY point. There is no "the point", there's yours and mine. Since mine doesn't agree with yours, you say it's wrong and shouldn't be discussed.
Shooting a BG and hoping he dies = Lack of remorse.
Shooting a BG and hoping he doesn't die = Remorse. Get it?
The only time I ever should pull the trigger is to kill. The "stop" word is just today's PC word for kill. If you want to "stop" someone, there are plenty of other means such as bean bags, tazers, etc.
The line is clear to me, onceaBGsteps inside my house, he has ignored all other methods to "stop" him. Ignored the laws that are in place, ignored the No Tresspassing signs, ignored the locked doors and windows. I don't want a BG in my house, I don't wantto have to shoot, I hope it never happens, but when it does, I will not feel the least bit guilty. I will call for LE and a medic, because that is what I should do. He had his warnings, he doesn't care, now it's time to die.
There is no law against hoping a shotBG dies in my house, no more than hoping a convicted murderer gets the death penalty. If you hold some sort of imaginary moral high ground over me for my way of thinking on this subject, then so be it.
I don't see how this "makes everyone here look bad" though. If it does, why isn't everyone else saying it too? Seems to me, others are saying the same thing as I, just not as bluntly.