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Originally Posted by Aliantha
In my opinion, and this opinion is derived from my upbringing and lifestyle. . .
It's not the responsibility of the general public to protect the rest of the general public. It's the responsibility of police and other law enforcement agencies to do to. Obviously there can't always be a cop around, and even if there is people will still shoot people.
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Reread that paragraph, Aliantha: can you not see how the last sentence shoots the first two down? (I should smile!)
We in this Republic take precisely the opposite view -- that it is part of a citizen's lawful militia powers, which rise out of his being an adult human, and which are to some degree demanded by this Republic's laws (Sec's 310-311 USC, which establish the legal existence of the US Militia, all as part of the concept of a citizen Army), and that a citizen of a Republic has a responsibility to defend against the society-destroying acts of any criminals, without any regard to their degree of violence. While it is helpful to have a professional, sworn police force to do this work well, it is not at all bad to have the amateurs hold the line until the pros can reinforce them.
Obviously there can't always be a cop around -- there is NO moral requirement to be helpless before armed agression in that circumstance. Do not ask that we not shoot back. We have wives and children to keep alive, woman! Some of us have husbands!