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Guns Don't Kill People: Really?
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From time to time, I take my life in my own hands and write a column that I know lots of people will not like. This is one of those times.
The headlines in Milwaukee say homicides are up 80 percent. In Chicago they are up 23 percent. In Charlotte five more are dead in a drive-by shooting. The United States is on schedule to set a record of gun deaths in 2015.
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xqqme
(9/15/2015)
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So this, guy, if a juror for a murder trial, would vote "Not Guilty" based on the following plea:
"Your Honor, my client pleads not guilty. He didn't kill the victim, the bullet did... and if not the bullet, the handgun from which the bullet was fired. All my client did was to load the bullet into the firearm, point the firearm in the direction of the victim, and gently squeeze the trigger.
My client is innocent. He was at least fifty feet from the victim and could not have inflicted the injuries resulting in death. It's all on the video.
I move for a directed verdict of acquittal." |
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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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