Posted on 04/27/2006 10:56:50 AM PDT by Living Free in NH
Maybe it'll convince a few scumbags to leave folks alone, or they'll get their head blown off...
It is always kind of difficult to retreat if you are in a wheelchair,other wise disabled,or elderly...
This is great news ..imagine government giving back your God given right to defend yourself and your loved ones from deadly criminals.
How the heck did government manage to take this right away in the first place...?
This pleases me.
If weapons had been confiscated centuries ago, we might have been singing God Save the Queen.
Nice to hear this from a Representative!
I would like to read the text of this bill.I will look it up tonight. Let me say as a long time member of the NRA, that I think this is a very bad idea if this is as far reaching as it appears to be. People get into fights all the time. Where I currently live its is legal to have a gun in one's car. I can only imagine the mischief that is going to occur in the hit of the moment.
I didnt see any qualification in this bill that this is against deadly criminals only. Fights happen all the time. I am not sure its a good idea that if you are belted in the bar parking lot you have a right to kill them.
"even if retreating from an attacker is an option." Is it just me???
I support 2nd Amendment rights, and I think that deadly force should be legal anytime someone invades one's home.
But I do not support people firing in public places when their lives are not in immediate danger.
We just had a sentencing here in MA of a "yewt" who fired on the street during an argument, missed his target, and ended up paralyzing a 5-year old girl who was sitting on her own porch.
It's getting so it's downright dangerous to rape somebody these days. Former President Clinton has weighed in, claiming that Constitutional rights to assembly are being hindred.
"I am not sure its a good idea that if you are belted in the bar parking lot you have a right to kill them."
If unprovoked, they have the right to receive whatever they get... IMHO
I guess you haven't heard of the similar laws in other states that haven't resulted in mass killings. You sound like a liberal saying he is a conservative. A long standing member of NRA should have no problem with complete freedom to defend oneself from idiots. If someone doesn't want to get shot let them keep their hands to themselves and not get into fights with strangers.
>>>>"How the heck did government manage to take this right away in the first place...?"<<<<
I really don't care what the Govt says concerning this issue, I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6, this argument is very one sided and punctuated by numerous projectiles going ballistic and the threat is treated to a very quick acting form of lead poisoning.
Some things should just never be treated as Political issues.
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We have the right not to have to cower in our homes. We reserve the right to meet force with force. We should never be forced by law to give in to the adult version of nothing more than a bully.
If a would-be carjacker, mugger, attacker knows he could lose his life over such an act he may think twice about doing it.
I just hope something horrible doesn't come out of this. I am sure some of us remember how stupid and invincible we felt we were 18 0r 19. I am just saying one day someone's son here could get in a stupid fight over a girl in a parking lot throw the first punch and get killed over it. I can think of lot of other situations where this might happen. The common law doctrine of self defense has developed over the centuries for a reason. That is past common experience.
I think that the responsibility to retreat, except in your own home, comes from the common law, and dates back 500 years or so.
Well put!
If we confiscate them now, we may be soon be saying "Allah is Great"
I would agree with you but it's also not good that people feel they have the right to belt you either. Perhaps some will think twice if they know there is a chance of repercussion. Don't get me wrong, I don't want people getting shot over incidents like you described but a person can die from getting belted also.
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