Reply #327: For which I am duly grateful.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

The lack of gun control, and correspondingly high rate of shootings, is one of the things that would make me think very seriously indeed about ever moving to the US. Deadly force should be a right only in defence of life and limb. Here in the UK, if you shoot an intruder who's still coming, or who doesn't know you're there (I think), you're within your rights, but if you shoot them while they're running away, you're not, and that strikes me as a sensible balance.