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In reply to the discussion: U.S. Supreme Court Allows Texas to Enforce New Voter ID Law for November Election [View all]Anansi1171
(793 posts)...a bit of a Straw Man. SYG is not the Castle Doctrine; it is an ALEC-sponsored legal scheme allowing private citizens to murder and get away with it ip post facto, just as law enforcement has to blacks, Latinos and other lower caste Americans for decades and which we are finally having a conversation about.
Everyone should have a right to defend their home, family and person from threats that a jury of peers would reasonably determine.
And even then, get this Man - EVEN THEN YOU STILL ARE RESPONSIBLE TO USE THAT FORCE THAT IS NECESSARY AND NO MORE - perhaps not legally responsible, but certainly as a "progressive" and a "democrat" you may have a higher sense of social responsibility than to declare it hunting season should a burglar come through the window.
Of course, and as always, Libertarians raison d'être is to deny or preclude any responsibility beyond the individual.