"mike" wrote

Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for one
who is responsible for the lives of others.

I'm responsible not only defending my own life, but also the life of
my family. I cannot do that with a pointy stick.

reply: My daughter was being threatened by gang girls in her junior year in
high school. For the last three months of the school year, we home schooled
her. Then for her final year, she went to a new satellite school for
talented students.

When I went to police and school officials and told them of the threats to
her, they said, "If the girls do anything to her, they will be in trouble."
Excuse me. Do I have to wait until she is maimed or killed before you will
do anything? Apparently so.

There were two girls. The brother of one was killed by a homeowner in a
home invasion. The brother of the other was killed at a convenience store
in a drive-by. They were serious gangsters.

At times, you can not defend yourself without letting the perpetrators
injure you. And, as with the Arizona shooter, there is nothing that police
or teachers or the system can or will do to the perpetrator who is
terrorizing people and acting a jerk.

But, boy, once they kill some people, now they're in trouble!

Trouble is that people are unnecessarily dead.

Steve