Montana teacher's 1-month rape sentence overturned

[The Straight Story]

15. Not sure what that last paragraph meant, but for the rest

It boils down to looking at intent, not method, and who (not what) is the cause.

I respect and understand guns make it easier to achieve a goal (like in hunting for example) than other methods. But those goals have been around and met since the dawn of the human race. We generally don't look at a hunter and tell them 'hey, your gun makes it easier to do your job so let's remove it' as that is rather a backwards mentality. We also don't blame the death of a deer when hunting on the gun or that the hunter has one because, as noted, the outcome would be achieved regardless.

Some people will misuse a tool for nefarious means, this does not mean we judge all on it nor remove said tool from everyone but the wealthy and powerful. And in this case because what one idiot did does not mean that others shouldn't have the right to defend themselves in their homes from such people.

I looked over crimes reported in my area last night and there were a slew of break ins. What is worse is many I know of myself never got reports written on them so don't even show up ( http://www.raidsonline.com/ ). Someone stealing something out of the garage I would call the cops on and stay in the house, as this person should have done. Someone coming into the home when I am there is a different matter entirely and I really don't want to call a lawyer and the cops to decide what, if anything, I should do to protect myself. It is not like tv where people talk for five minutes about the crime they are going to do with you and such.

Self protection is a right, some will abuse the legal system and extend that to silly extremes (or be like our government and launch preemptive wars and kill hundreds of thousands) like going after someone breaking into their car and attack them (with fists, bats, etc - same principle, different tools). Do you have the right to protect what you own or is does that right only exist to a few police officers in your city?