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In reply to the discussion: Before Calling 911, Sheriff Tells Residents To Get ‘In The Game’ With A Gun [View all]NutmegYankee
(16,197 posts)94. Neither of those men acted in self defense. They're murderers.
Sure, they tried to argue otherwise and lie. But neither was defending in the classic sense. Zimmerman was the attacker, not the defender.
Reading this sub thread, you seemed to imply (multiple times) that someone fighting their attacker was a vigilante. People defend themselves from direct attack with many weapons, of which guns is one. Store clerks, as a subset, have used guns, brooms, cans, hostess cakes (throwing them and distracting robber), and fists to defend against violent attackers. If someone breaks into a home and attacks a family, they are justified to use whatever is at hand to defend themselves.
And that is on people's minds here in CT - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire,_Connecticut,_home_invasion_murders
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Before Calling 911, Sheriff Tells Residents To Get ‘In The Game’ With A Gun [View all]
diabeticman
Jan 2013
OP
makes sense if you live off the beaten track when cops may be a long time coming.
loli phabay
Jan 2013
#1
no idea what the response time is there but its sound advice if its more than a minute or so.
loli phabay
Jan 2013
#5
I believe this is an excellent example of when alerting on jury results is appropriate. (nt)
Robb
Jan 2013
#104
every area has crime. we get a lot of break ins due to meth heads also starting to see gang problem
loli phabay
Jan 2013
#45
In which jurisdition do people not have legal authority to defend themselves, and earn the label...
beevul
Jan 2013
#85
Word games? They're your words, and your stated definitions. I'm simply asking where they apply.
beevul
Jan 2013
#88
well id rather my wife was holding the twelve gauge as she sits on the bed with the kids with dispat
loli phabay
Jan 2013
#20
well my kids get to shoot most weeks so i would have no issue with them coming across the 12 gauge
loli phabay
Jan 2013
#31
well the dog will wake me up and my glock is close by and the other guns accessible
loli phabay
Jan 2013
#27
You've done nothing to indicate you are different from other members of gun culture.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#77
You've done nothing to indicate you can accurately or objectively characterize the gun culture.
beevul
Jan 2013
#86
You mean all those times you remarked about me carrying a gun as if I did, even though I don't...
beevul
Jan 2013
#103
No, is exactly what I figured. Maybe you should reassess the risks you actually face rather
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#47
The answer is clearly "More Defibrillators." Toting them in public would give would be heroes a real
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#112
Are you going to bring up your "can of beans" approach to home defense again?
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2013
#36