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To: SWAMPSNIPER

No - it isn’t.

People defend themselves against crimes every day without weapons. A weapon makes it easier and I do think people should be allowed to have them to defend themselves, but it’s a different right from that of pure self defence.

I’ve stopped two violent crimes in the last five years without using a weapon. In one case, I had one available, but I didn’t need that level of force to deal with the situation. In the other I wish I had been wearing my sidearm, because that one was much more potentially serious, but I still got the person down and restrained without one.


40 posted on 12/15/2014 3:47:50 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

You may be young and strong now, but you will probably get old. Do you want to be helpless too?


45 posted on 12/15/2014 3:55:28 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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