On Aug 11, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Constance Warner wrote:
Shoot back? SHOOT BACK? If you're in a shooting match, regardless of the source of the guns or the justice of your cause, your chances of death or serious injury just went up by several thousand per cent. Empowering citizens to shoot back at the bad guys might be justifiable if there were NO cops, NO law, and NO courts. [Actually, we have cops, law, and courts; we're luckier in that respect than they are in many countries in the world today.] But with a "shoot back when warranted" policy, you're postulating a situation in which amateur, untrained citizens are charge of individualized law enforcement, using lethal force. This is, to put it mildly, a risk management nightmare.
But you are being logical. That doe not have much currency in this debate.
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