Back in the last surge of gun-controlism in the 1970s, it was already a national debate when a new prosecutor was elected in Maricopa County, AZ. The yapping media went to his first news conference and blurted out the complex question: “What do you do if somebody breaks into your home?”
Without hesitation, the prosecutor succinctly replied, “You shoot the S.O.B!” And this has pretty much been the policy in the entire state ever since. And this was in the 1970s, when the gun-controlists had momentum.
Today in Arizona, wrongful death litigation against a citizen would be for the most part laughed out of court. It is almost exclusively used against LEOs, and then only when the LEO killed a bystander or clearly innocent person.
The two types of criminal gunmen in Arizona are either not from Arizona, either Mexicans or transients; or they are so crazy they don’t care if other people are shooting back at them, like Laughner in Tucson. Even at the political assembly for liberal Democrat Giffords in very blue Tucson, there were several armed people in the audience. He was tackled by a man with a gun while reloading, because it was faster than shooting him.
I like to point out that where there is gun liberty, even the mostly crazy people are more self-controlled, because the little bit of rationality they have left inhibits them when they face a gun, or the prospect of a gun.
My final point is that in Arizona, people are realizing that “every adult person of good character” is a lawman, and that the police are a convenience only, to stop bad problems already underway, to do detective work, and to doggedly pursue known badmen until arrested and put in prison. Basically doing the police work that the public are too busy to do.
The other states, are the other states, with their own rules.
well it sounds like arizona has the mentality needed all across the rest of the country.