Monday, October 15, 2012

Q&A

Stand Your Ground laws reverse a centuries-old legal tenet...[More]

Oh, go bleat somewhere else, you...you anti-gun male. And if you're going to wear one of these things, stop popping it out in front of people and playing with it.

Natural law's a bit older than that, and fight or flight is a reaction best left to the one being threatened according to his or her mindset and level of preparedness, rather than some effete regressive getting the vapors over the fact that some of us realize bolting like a rabbit activates the chase instinct in predators on the hunt.

"Stand your ground" really only raises one question, which would weigh heavily in the mind of potential aggressors in a sane society, one that promoted the right and the means of individual self-defense:

Do I feel lucky?

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Let's not overlook this lovely quote:

There are two types of justifiable homicides: when an officer kills a person and situations in which a civilian kills another person and is not charged.

What I see here is a blanket statement that anytime an LEO kills someone, it's justifiable.

Excrement.

Anonymous said...

Followed the link to the store about the "Rapex" product. Actually, I kinda like the idea. If it had an internal mechanism to SET the hooks REALLY, REALLY DEEP, I'm not sure that the perp would be able to do ANYTHING - at least for a while - but lie on the ground, screaming and holding his mangled, bleeding, plastic encased member! As for bleeding on the victim, my expectation is that at the onset of pain (unbearable agony? ;) ) he would immediately pull out and the victim would have minimal exposure to his blood. If the laws were written correctly, the victim would even be shielded from any civil consequences.

And I rather doubt any woman with the gumption (balls?) to purchase and utilize such a device would be too terribly torn up about the penetration/violation necessary to successfully deploy such a device.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Goodwin, you reckon that's why, in the minds of some (many?) people, after a revolution starts all LEOs still wearing the uniform will convert to targets?

Bill said...

Duty to retreat laws reversed millennia-old legal tenet. Florida and other States have finally come to their senses and corrected this sad mistake.

There, fixed it for them.

W W Woodward said...

I find it interesting that police v citizen shootings ("22 in 2004 to 65 in 2011")were compared to citizen v citizen shootings ("eight in 2004 to 47 in 2011").

Looks as if the police are still ahead in the homicide race even with the "stand your ground law in force" both in raw numbers as well as the probable per capita rate. Self defense shootings by LEOs will far outnumber any other type police shootings.

The question as to whether police are blessed with a higher entitlement to self defense than are mere citizens was not addressed in the op-ed.
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