ONLY "contact" shes had with any firearm was seeing one on TELEVISION.... and even then she averted her tender eyes!
Dahlia Lithwick is a Canadian writer and editor who lives in the United States. Lithwick is a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate
First thing I think of is Captain Winters telling Major Nixon, “I don’t like retreating”.
Just for instance. Of course, they were the first at Berchestgaten, after Hitler, that is.
Americans used to value the concept of retreat? What the h*ll kind of stupid headline is this?
“Detroiters have had it. Chief Craig has often said good Americans that are legally in possession of firearms are defending their homes, and they have the right to do that, and we stand behind them in doing so,”
Here’s some practical advice for those who don’t wish to be shot for attacking someone that will stand their ground. Don’t attack people...the more you know.
What the hell America is she talking about? I've never retreated from anything in my life and don't plan on ever doing so!
I don’t enjoy Slate... they’re so dishonest...
Gunned down while you were beating a head against the sidewalk. Yea, right.
"Canadians are all trash...with their beady eyes, and their flapping heads."Semper Fi
As sure as the sun rises, another cookie cutter know-it-all “Journ-O-List”
BTW Babe, Thugvon was not “gunned down” Idiot
Lithwick was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and is a Canadian citizen. She moved to the U.S. to study at Yale University, where she received a B.A. in English in 1990. As a student at Yale she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit. In 1990 she and her debate partner at the time Austan Goolsbee were runners up for National Debate Team of the Year.[dubious – discuss]
She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[1] She is Jewish, and keeps a kosher home.[5]
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Uh, Dahlia, how are you supposed to “retreat” when some thug has you down on the ground and is beating your head on the concrete?
often young, black, and male)
Maybe if they didn’t instigate these encounters, they might become older black males more often...
People, it’s Slate. What do you expect?
The LIE continues.
Stupid headline...even stupider content I think the author of this just loves stupid.
Yet another ego-driven, arrogant, haughty foreigner telling us how to run the country.
Yes, actually, that is unreasonable by definition inasmuch as it is an entirely false representation of the circumstances cited. You can be shot and killed for physically attacking someone, yes, with no consequences for the shooter, as it should be.
It never seems to occur to liberal gun prohibitionists that a presumed requirement to retreat works both ways. If it applied to Zimmerman, it also applied to the aggressor St. Trayvon, who very obviously did not "value" retreat.
Shorn of its legalistic pretensions, Dahlia's case is simply that physical violence is justified on the part of protected classes and that those in "oppressing" classes have no right to self-defense. She can hyperventilate all she wants, but that isn't how it's going to be.