Originally Posted by
paraclete
What you don't realise Smoothy is that that is a pecularly North American idea. That you can attack and kill someone breaking into your home. apprehend yes but kill, that makes you exactly the same as the one you killed, a criminal. What do your american troops say when the same standard is applied to them by an Afghan, they don't say he had a right, Double standards.
I know you can't stop criminals from having guns and you can't stop them using one by having a gun yourself. Look at Mexico the consequence of the very ideas you espouse. The guns that kill Mexicans are made in America and they are exported by criminals because they are freely available.
I used to own a gun and have it with me but I now realise what a foolish idea that was.