[The G Man]

I wonder if they would hit the guy raping their wife or trying to murder their children.

The left. What a bunch of maroons. "Got Brains?"

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I posed a version of this question to a guy on my floor in college who said he was a pacifist: "wouldn't you shoot someone to save your mother's life or keep her from being raped?"

He said no.

So don't be surprised if some of these idiots wouldn't let their wives or kids be raped.

[Big Bunyip]

I wonder if they would hit the guy raping their wife

The correct pacificist response in that situation would be to try and come between them. A Clintonian threesome -- how very chic! :-)

[Sloth]

"I'm sorry you feel the need to rape my wife and children, but I maintain that violence only produces more violence. So the next time you do it, I'm going to write a sternly worded letter to the local paper and bring a civil suit against you."