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In reply to the discussion: OK...the million dollar question. Why would you want to kill someone? [View all]atreides1
(16,070 posts)87. And if the bat didn't work?
How about if it were more then one person? You only provide one single scenario...one person breaking in! What if it were 2 or 3, and they were armed?
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OK...the million dollar question. Why would you want to kill someone? [View all]
Taverner
Dec 2012
OP
easy question you kill someone to save yourself or someone else from death or serious injury
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#1
I think he's going to the sense of tragedy in "having" to kill someone that is absent in most
Ed Suspicious
Dec 2012
#179
You resolve your feelings before you put yourself in the position.
socialindependocrat
Dec 2012
#201
in a life or death confrontation i am happy if someone dies as long as its the other guy
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#208
pretty much evolution does or do you still think we are single cell creatures
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#89
I honestly believe that if ever confronted with it live and in person,
Ruby the Liberal
Dec 2012
#122
"If you beat that man to death to stop him from raping you, whatever will you say to his mother"?
Ruby the Liberal
Dec 2012
#111
He's aiming for the greatest page, no matter how asinine a statement must be made.
X_Digger
Dec 2012
#126
DU is full of stories from gun nuts who "defended their family with their glock"
Taverner
Dec 2012
#11
Not kicking down the door, but you can hear someone breaking in, if you're awake.
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#17
I have posted about my wife scaring away a would-be mugger. No shots fired.
GreenStormCloud
Dec 2012
#170
If you are a good person, and you kill someone and feel nothing...you are not a good person
Taverner
Dec 2012
#12
Roger That - The Culture Of Death And Gun Enablers Have Debased America Significantly
cantbeserious
Dec 2012
#209
So it's not ok for law enforcement to kill criminals in their defense or the defense of others?
jal777
Dec 2012
#16
Yes. Yes I am. If you kill someone in the process, and you don't feel anything...
Taverner
Dec 2012
#30
If you have a gun and never asked yourself this question, you have no business with one
Taverner
Dec 2012
#24
There is a huge difference between "accidentally blundered" and "breaking and entering".
GreenStormCloud
Dec 2012
#191
Because I think the idea that you are going to stop a determined attacker with a bat is foolish
Taitertots
Dec 2012
#62
My late wife killed a home invader who had a gun on me many years ago
ProgressiveProfessor
Dec 2012
#43
Whether your wife killed him or murdered him he's still just as dead, isn't he?
TheDebbieDee
Dec 2012
#112
Yes, but the justification of the murder is in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?
TheDebbieDee
Dec 2012
#121
His solution to this would be to hide and hit the killer in the knee or he would become a sociopath
jal777
Dec 2012
#71
It is not something one takes lightly, but I would not lose sleep over it
The Straight Story
Dec 2012
#67
If it was a horde of crazy hippies on meth who were trying to hurt me or my family...
renie408
Dec 2012
#104
Just keep in mind that police are not personal security and are not obligated to render aid.
TheKentuckian
Dec 2012
#145
My point was nothing of the kind, I am not fixated on one scenario with every thought revolving
TheKentuckian
Dec 2012
#216
Why would you want to allow yourself or a loved one to die? Would you sleep better THEN?
jmg257
Dec 2012
#142
Having been in positions where I killed people and then failed to kill someone I should have
Victor_c3
Dec 2012
#156
And you've done nothing but WASTE one more opportunity to honestly address your authentic
patrice
Dec 2012
#180
Let's get this straight. No non-psychopathic/sociopathic person "wants" to kill anyone ever
nachosgrande
Dec 2012
#189
If I were in genuine fear for my life, I'd be prepared to use lethal force to defend myself.
Spider Jerusalem
Dec 2012
#198
If someone's trying to harm me, I AIN'T WORRYIN' ABOUT HIS MOTHER, PAL. THAT'S HIS CONCERN.
WinkyDink
Dec 2012
#215