Reply #6: But it's reasonable that anyone can kill anyone [View All]

[DirkGently]

they want, so long as they claim to have "felt threatened?" Sorry, but that's a bridge too far. A standard like that is far more susceptible to "complication" and abuse than the basic social precept that you don't elect to kill someone if you can safely avoid it (and you're not already in your house).

It's one thing to argue that gun owners aren't bloodthirsty and violent, but it's another thing altogether to claim that anyone, anywhere, has the right kill someone in the street because they wanted to "stand their ground" rather than exit the situation where it's possible to SAFELY do so.

The old law was more than fair as to self-defense. This is the gun lobby playing out a fantasy of making everyone a deputy sheriff.