Murder is the unlawful taking of a life, what's unlawful is for politics to define, and courts to decide based on the facts in the case. Think what you will, but it's up to the legislature to decide what is and isn't legal. The NRA couldn't get laws passed if a majority of the people in a state didn't agree with the them, no matter what they might think. There have been some truly egregious examples of felons being shot in self defense later suing the people they attacked, (who were criminally exonerated), then winning huge settlements. The majority were outraged by the results which makes these laws possible. Criminal prosecution of someone who in all events seems to be simply defending themselves also seems to be patently unfair to most people as well.
William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "P. J. Alling" Subject: Re: Doomsday is coming upon us? > > > That's actually not true. The state took murder quite seriously even in > the "Wild West", some murders were much more difficult to detect, and > apprehension of suspects in those murders that were detected could be > much more problematic. > > Defining murder seems a bit problematic when firearms enter the equation as > well. > http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=107276 > > William Robb > > > -- Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. --Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
