@Ceili,
Ceili wrote:Then there is the whole equal force thing...
If you shoot someone coming at you with a fist,
you deserve to go to jail.
Ceili, meaning no disrespect, your remark is ill considered.
Lemme ask u this: suppose that u have a very good friend or close relative who u genuinely
CARE about.
Suppose that he decides to carry a gun for defensive purposes
and he proceeds to do so, within your knowledge,
even if not within your approval.
On a given day, he comes to see u after having been released
from the hospital. He tells u that he was involved in a minor
traffic collision, with vehicular property damage and that
another party to the collision was irate and (with his fist);
he beat your good friend or relative, causing permanent loss
of hearing in one ear and loss of an eye and severe spinal damage.
Ceili, true or false:
woud u inquire of him: Y didn 't u shoot him?
or woud u just be relieved that the assailant remained intact ?
To the extent that my memory is accurate,
an incident approximately like this actually happened not long
after Texas threw out gun control and became a "shall issue"
must issue jurisdiction for licenses to carry concealed guns.
A new licensee was involved in such a collision.
If I remember (maybe others can recall this incident?)
there was a homicide prosecution in which there were passionate
feelings expressed that the licensee who lost his aforesaid hearing
etc shoud not have shot his attacker.
In such a situation, Ceili, how is a victim to
KNOW or to
predict
the severity of personal injury will be in
each of the concussions
from his attacker's fist, whether he is to be hit one additional time
or 75 additional times?
It is
perverted to expect a victim to be concerned about the well-being of the attacker.
Will u reveal your thoughts about such a situation ?
(Of course, everyone else is invited to comment also.)
Imagine that u were a juror in this situation.
As I remember,
what was left of the defendant was acquitted.
David
