Victims making hardest choice (Split-second decision to shoot back changes, ends lives)

ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE ^ | Sep 29, 02 | DIANA RASCHKE

[Liberal Classic]

Better to be tried by twelve, than carried by six BUMP!

[Joe Brower]

I'm sure they do. And of course the job can always be done by hand.

[Billthedrill]

No sane person wants to take another human's life.

Mega-bump. I couldn't agree more.

There is a tendency in the media to blur the distinction between a threat to property and a threat to one's life. For example, an unarmed shoplifter ripping off a store isn't threatening anyone's life, but an armed robber who points a gun at anyone, for whatever reason, even if he "only" wants money, is absolutely threatening life, and a deadly-force response is absolutely warranted. Now and then we hear the uninformed bleating "oh, I'd give him my wallet rather than shooting back, money isn't worth killing somebody over," comfortable in the erroneous assumption that the issue is money. It isn't. When the gun comes out it is ipso facto a direct threat to life, and I wish the media would write from this perspective - it might save somebody.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Success stories are always a good read. Guns save lives. I wonder how many stories of self-defense that we do not hear about.

[PatrioticAmerican]

We wife's office jokes about wood chippers. Every time she sees one she cracks up.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"state over and over "I feared for my life! I feared for my life!""

Worked for me.

[wardaddy]

BTTT

[pocat]

"Human life, no matter if it’s a burglar’s, shoplifter’s or whatever, is considered more valuable than any property,"

It would be nice if everyone felt the same towards the unborn life.

...Not to change the subject, but that phrase just jumped out at me.

Good read.

[RipSawyer]

"If we, as individuals, do not take responsibility for combatting crime or terrorism, who will? Take back the night! Take back your right to live as free Americans."

One of my favorites came from the magazine of the NRA, The American Rifleman. As well as I can remember a man and his wife ran a convenience store and their 14 year old son was with them when two armed men came in and began to beat the man unmercifully, apparently the woman stood and watched until her 14 year old son came out of a back room and the men grabbed him. At that point mama had had enough and she reached under the counter and came out with a 38 in one hand and a 22 revolver in the other. Firing both guns at once she killed both of the armed men on the spot.
Just goes to show that a real old fashioned mother may let you get away with killing her husband but you best not touch her child.

[Travis McGee]

You tell em bruddah!

[ninenot]

Yeah...my NRA membership and absolute pro-life views are totally in sync. Life defended is life defended...

[ninenot]

Good story. Probably the case with my wife, too...I may as well stop the perp; she won't until one of our children is endangered. THEN ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE.

[neutrino]

Thanks for posting!