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- From: ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)
- Subject: Re: 4 Q's: Deadly Self-Defense Against Rape
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.194549.7488@socrates.umd.edu>
- Organization: University of Maryland University College
- References: <1992Nov10.193943.4958@rotag.mi.org> <1992Nov10.210555.17644@chpc.org> <1992Nov13.200443.14525@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <13224@optilink.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:45:49 GMT
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- cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.200443.14525@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892) writes:
- ># Rape is grevious injury. Hence, is not deadly force directed against an
- ># attacker while htey are attempting rape permitted throughout the US?
-
- >It should be, but there are a lot of people in America (liberals)
- >who seem to think that rape is preferable to dead rapists.
-
- The United Methodist Church, which founded the National Coalition to
- Ban Handguns (NCBH), declares that people should submit to rape and
- robbery rather than endanger the criminal's life by shooting him. The
- Presbyterian Church, another NCBH affiliate, supports a complete ban
- on handguns because it opposes "the killing of anyone, anywhere, for
- any reason", including defense of others against a life-threatening
- attack.
-
- I don't think either church is known for having liberal views...
-
- Interestingly, to me it seems that the Presbyterian Church would want
- to disarm *everyone*, including the police and the military. I'm sure
- that criminals and hostile countries wholeheartedly support that idea.
-