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In reply to the discussion: OK...the million dollar question. Why would you want to kill someone? [View all]cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)You are trying to read the OP as if it had meaning, and it follows from that that the OP must be about human reaction to committing justifiable homicide.
It is not, however.
The OP is categorically opposed to lethal self defense... or pretending to be, for the purposes of this flame-bait.
The OP is arguing gun control "in the alternative" even if we accept that killers are about to murder you or your family you still shouldn't have a gun because how could you kill another human being?
He doesn't seem to grasp that if every home in America was in fact surrounded by crazed killers trying to get in that widespread gun ownership would in fact be an excellent idea. But since we are not all ringed with killers that hypothetical does have much force.
(And if civilization was going to fall tomorrow the survivalists would be on to something... but it isn't, and they aren't.)
The objective appears to be to stake out a "More anti-gun than thou" position because people are getting tired of the argument and the OP can't get a rise from anybody without going to such foolish extremes. It's like some PETA person saying that you shouldn't eat an animal even if you are starving to death.
Or a hypothetical extreme anti-choicer saying you shouldn't have an abortion even if the mother is in mortal peril.
Meanwhile, the OP fantasizes about shooting guns from attacker's hands, taking down gunmen with a baseball bat... all sorts of truly infantile stuff. Read through the whole thread. It's tragic.
If you want a serious discussion about the moral and psychological dimensions of justifiable homicide, this ain't the thread for it.