Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumWith Guns, the Threatened Can Quickly Become the Threat
Another school shooting today. A 13-year-old opened fire at a middle school in Roswell, New Mexico, critically wounding two.
As I write, details on the incident remain scarce. But heres something we do know. After this shooting, as after so many horrors past, a great number of Americans will insist that the right response to gun violence is more guns in more places. They believe that their guns keep them safe.
One of those who believe thatat least until recentlywas Curtis Reeves. The 71-year-old former Tampa police captain had founded the citys SWAT team. Retired from the force, Reeves still carried a .38 caliber handgun. On Monday, he carried his gun with him to a movie theater in Wesley Chapel, Florida, an exurban community 26 miles north of Tampa. Reeves became annoyed by a man in the row directly ahead of him who texted before the show. Reeves complained first to the man, then to the theater manager. A confrontation erupted. Voices were raised. Popcorn was thrown. And suddenly: a man was dead.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/14/with-guns-the-threatened-quickly-become-the-threat.html
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Kindly quote three. It should be easy if there really are "a great number of Americans...insist(ing) that the right response to gun violence is more guns in more places."
ileus
(15,396 posts)Where people get the idea being a victim is some kind of noble act is beyond me...
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)"With Guns, the Threatened Can Quickly Become the Threat"
The problem is, the response must be proportional to the threat. No shooting people over stupid shit like someone standing in your yard. Throwing popcorn, etc.
There is a line between:
"reasonable ground to apprehend a design on the part of the person slain to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury to the slayer or to any such person, and there is imminent danger of such design being accomplished"
and
"I was afraid"
and that line needs to be re-established in multiple states.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)by legislation, I don't think it hasn't been removed. It does need to be re established in the minds of the public who have been misinformed about the law by the media, something the state governments need to rectify.
Accurate explanation of the state use of force law and ADD (avoidance, deterrence, deescalation) should be incorporated in any self defense/CCW training.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)We ARE seeing some prosecutions, but we'll see what the juries think of the application of force under those laws.
So far the results have been... mixed.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)and it is all in the details that the juries get and consider, which the media never reports.