Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Boys Attack Cyclist Who Fights Back, Kills 1 [View all]Kellerfeller
(397 posts)He was hurt no more than he was hurt.
"Gosh, one would almost think someone had said they did ..."
You sure are implying it by saying we have no right to stop him by whatever means necessary.
"Well, I've thought about how much more likely it would be that criminals would shoot first and look for the thing their victim was armed with later. Have you tried thinking about that at all?"
That is a logical fallacy. If they were going to do that and risk the jail sentence for murder, they would be doing that now. Having armed victims raises the bar as to how bad the criminal wants the stuff before committing the crime.
"Find us a significant number among all those many homicides in the US in a year where the victim having a firearm "may have" saved their life (or, since you seem to have access to that handy alternate timeline machine, would have saved their life) ..."
Here's a high profile one just recently.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/okla-woman-shoots-kills-intruder911-operators-shoot/story?id=15285605#.TySfLILAydA