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In reply to the discussion: "Legally allowing women to shoot their rapists only encourages murders." [View all]GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)50. Your example fails.
On your porch, fumbling with his keys is not a threat you you. Call 911 that there is a stranger on your porch.
On your porch, kicking in your door is a threat to you. Call 911 first but as soon as he kicks the door in, shoot.
I hope you can see the difference between the two situations.
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"Legally allowing women to shoot their rapists only encourages murders." [View all]
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2012
OP
SYG adds nothing new except the would-be victim is not required to retreat
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2012
#4
I wasn't commenting on the rightness or wrongness of privately owned prisons
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2012
#42
You are the one who is not thinking and is seriously confused about SD and SYG
ProgressiveProfessor
Jun 2012
#67
Saying something is demonstrably false and then providing an example is insulting?
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2012
#20
Arrest and trial ARE punishment, if one hasn't actually done something wrong.
PavePusher
Jun 2012
#24
"Idiot"? Not at all. "Confused", maybe. Or possibly, by your own admission, "misleading".
PavePusher
Jun 2012
#60