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Handguns are carried for defense. When the assailant is fleeing, there is no self-defense situation anymore. That's vigilantism, not defense.
Second, we are responsible for wherever that bullet does after it leaves the barrel.
If the blurb correctly captures what actually happened, it appears Earls acted improperly. Does that rise to a level of a crime? I would say that it does, but I was not there when the evidence was being presented.
Lawful gun carry and self-defense have been maliciously prosecuted so often that the Grand Jury is evidently erring on the side of not indicting (presuming innocence), even when it is in a tragic situation like this. This is an unintended consequence of dirty prosecutions like the one Rittenhouse faced. |
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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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