Only to those like apparently most freepers who think it’s ok to kill someone who pushes you down
Y’all musta been great fun at kickball in grade school
I guess I’m just old..I am... and come from a fist fighting (formerly dueling) and slave owning culture where you don’t kill someone over a physical confrontation
Good thing
I woulda killed a lot of folks otherwise
I tend to avoid getting into violent attacks. If I shot everybody who had actually hit me in anger, I think 3 people would be dead.
Of course, I don’t have a gun. And I have, on more than one occasion, intervened in physical altercations, and managed to live to tell the tale, and not because I am in any way physically intimidating, as a short old fat guy.
On the other hand, if a guy twice your size has just blindsided you, and is now approaching you, and you have a gun, you have two choices — allow the big angry man to do whatever he wants to you, or brandish your gun, remembering the general rule “don’t pull your gun if you aren’t going to use it”.
Your argument appears to be that, even if you have a gun, unless the other guy has some weapon, his physical superiority is his license to do whatever he wants to you.
And yes, there are cultures where the physically superior get to rule the roost, this is a large part of how bullies operate, especially in places where weapons are prohibited so they know their victims have no recourse.
But what makes our society great is that we invented tools that equalize the battlefield between large physical violent people and the unathletic, puny law-abiding citizens who don’t want to be beat up.
>>Y’all musta been great fun at kickball in grade school<<
When I was in grade school in the early 1950s, every recess we used to play a game aptly named MURDER BALL. The way this game worked was simple. If a dozen guys were playing, the guy with the ball attempted to keep possession of it for as long as possible while the other 11 guys tried to run him down and pummel him to the ground. He was only spared a beating when he tossed away the ball. That said, these children’s games are a poor analogy to a physical assault by an unknown adult. I’ve witnessed a fair amount of this violence in my life, and a number of times where ambulances were required on account of cuts and bullet holes.