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Originally posted by Azred:
Defending yourself is your basic human right if someone is attacking you; however, if someone attacks you with fists and you kill them with a gun that is going too far.
Does it matter if you killed your attacker iwth a gun? or your fist? or a knife? I single defensive punch can be lethal. I think the moral blame should go with the attacker and not the defender. If you are attacked and the situation ends with the attacker dead, I believe that it might just serve as a deterent to other would be attackers.
The again I believe a society where most of the population is armed would be a much more polite society too...You wouldn't see nearly so many cases of road rage if the "perps" knew that any of the surrounding cars probably had people who just might take offense and fight back with possibly deadly force.
ahh but then you would have the old west syndrome full of lynch mobs and Ox bow incidents guess humans just can't win [img]smile.gif[/img]