(09-27-2016, 12:51 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I am angry about the constant shootings in America. I am grieved for the lives lost and for their families. I am outraged that Americans continue to support permissive gun laws. I am angry that too many police (not all, but some) have no respect for black lives. The shooting of unarmed black men, while white men are not shot, is beyond unjust.
This lady would be dead if she wasn't armed. This is why people like to keep firearms. Anyone want to bet these fine upstanding members of the black community are obeying the current gun laws? Even if they were unarmed I doubt this lady would have lasted very long unarmed against these men. Truth is, her odds were better with a firearm than they ever would have been without one. Who knows? Maybe the other two will wise up after seeing the lady plant their buddy in the ground.
You would rather have seen her dead just to feel better and this is why I truly despise you. Even on the low side of 50,000 defensive uses of firearms means that there are net more people alive because of private firearms ownership. The numbers are probably much higher since nobody really wants to deal with law enforcement, who are overly militarized, if they can avoid it. The Hemenway and the Violence Policy surveys were done by people with an ax to grind and their methodology was a joke.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises