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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!smoke.brl.mil
- From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Trouble in MiraMesa
- Message-ID: <19593@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 03:32:45 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1993Jan22.003145.10202@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
- #My friend's father, who is actually supposed to be a good competitive
- #shooter, intends to shoot him in the leg, if he comes to work armed.
- #When I tried to tell her that I thought his attitude was dangerous, she
- #said that 1) her dad is a very good shot and 2) there's no reason to
- #just kill the guy.
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- Well, if he is JUSTIFIABLY confident of his ability to place shots
- that accuracy under the pressure of a real self-defense situation
- (and how would he know this?), then it could be legally required
- that he do this, rather than what would otherwise be likely to
- result i(a legally UNjustified) homicide. However, not many people
- are really that capable. Most likely it's the usual misperception
- that "shooting to wound" is somehow more civilized than "shooting
- to kill". Of course, the recommended policy is NEITHER of those --
- it's "shoot so as to maximize the likelihood of stopping the assault",
- which generally happens to also have a significant chance of killing
- the assailant. But in any rational moral, ethical, and legal system
- your priority should be on preserving your own life, not that of a
- thug.
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