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| Comment by:
Millwright66
(6/27/2015)
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| How does one set about documenting all the instances of criminals being deterred by their appreciation of threat of their victim(s) being armed ? How do we document how a reactive reach for a firearm deters a criminal ? How do we document how many criminals have a change of heart when their intended victim displays a firearm ? We can't, except in the aggregate decline in violent crimes where the threat of CCW prevails. And its precisely on this hinge VPC and its ilk swing their innuendos. |
| Comment by:
teebonicus
(6/28/2015)
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These "studies", valid or not, are irrelevant.
The sanctity of our fundamental rights is neither increased nor diminished by any "study".
Fundamental rights stand apart from the democratic process, and are immutable.
As Scalia wrote in Heller, fundamental, natural rights are not subject to any free-standing "interest balancing" test. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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