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- From: whs70@dancer.cc.bellcore.com (sohl,william h)
- Subject: Re: 4 Q's: Deadly Self-Defense Against Rape
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 21:45:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.214541.14783@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.194549.7488@socrates.umd.edu> ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman) writes:
- >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.
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- I've been a member of our local Presbyterian church for 2 years now and
- I've never heard either of these positions mentioned, discussed, etc.
- I'm not saying that the upper echelon leadership might not hold these
- views, but I think the statements above are rather wide in scope, to
- say the least. Guess I'll have to ask my minister what he might know
- about this. The one thing I'd find very disturbing would be for the
- church to hold to such an extreme position as "opposes the killing of
- anyone, anywhere, for any reason, including defense of others against
- life threatening attack."
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