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"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun".
~Dalai Lama, Seattle, May 15th, 2001
Okay, just posted both those quotes on my FB page. Let’s see what happens. Will let you all know.
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And these:
“Though defensive violence will always be ‘a sad necessity’ in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.”
- St. Augustine
“Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one’s life, one’s goods or one’s physical integrity; sometimes, even ‘til the aggressor’s death.... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one’s life or one’s goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.”
- St. Thomas Aquinas