“Can I kill another human being?
If your answer is “no”, you should not posess a firearm.”
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“Do not buy a gun for protection unless you are prepared to make the instantaneous moral decision that a human being threatening your life with a weapon has now lost his right to life.”
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Corollary: A woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow superior to a woman explaining how she scared off her attacker with a gun she wasn’t willing to use to shoot him.
Granted.
I think even people who might hesitate to take a human life in defense of their own would be more inclined to do so in defense of someone else; especially the life of their spouse or child. The point being that the responsibilities of owning a weapon and the decision about using it in a life threatening situation need to be thought through well BEFORE such an event occurs.