Rather than hijack a different thread and pursue this discussion there, I would like to see it have its own thread.
I'd like responses and opinions of the following:
It's a subject I wonder about. Take average Woman A. She hates guns, won't have anything to do with them. Won't even consider the idea of shooting someone to prevent herself being raped, or even murdered. Considers herself a "pacifist." Considers it a truism that "violence begets violence." Doesn't want to be part of harming another human life. (It's a mindset I can't even begin to relate to, caring so much about a rapist's life that I would prefer my own to be ended at his hands rather than do him in...!)
Put a kid into the picture. She now has a two-year-old daughter in a carseat in the car with her wherever she goes. Ask her about how she feels about not using a gun to defend against a carjacker/kidnaper now. Maybe she feels more like she should take responsibility for having some power to direct events when someone threatens.
If she doesn't, I think she's a pitiful parent. Any parent of a helpless child, who does not ensure that he/she can fend off attack for the sake of that child's safety is pitiful, in my book. Should not be in charge of caring for, much less teaching, that child.
Your thoughts, please.
Is someone who is responsible for a child, but who does not equip herself (himself?) to fend off violent criminal attack, negligent as a caretaker? They get the kid innoculated, they get the kid fed, they get the kid taught, but then when they are out and about, they have no weapon (a firearm, specifically) with which they could FIGHT for the safety of that child. So if it's a carjacker, a robber, a rapist, whoever, the only option of that woman is to capitulate and HOPE for MERCY? Again, I say "pitiful."
-blackmind
I'd like responses and opinions of the following:
It's a subject I wonder about. Take average Woman A. She hates guns, won't have anything to do with them. Won't even consider the idea of shooting someone to prevent herself being raped, or even murdered. Considers herself a "pacifist." Considers it a truism that "violence begets violence." Doesn't want to be part of harming another human life. (It's a mindset I can't even begin to relate to, caring so much about a rapist's life that I would prefer my own to be ended at his hands rather than do him in...!)
Put a kid into the picture. She now has a two-year-old daughter in a carseat in the car with her wherever she goes. Ask her about how she feels about not using a gun to defend against a carjacker/kidnaper now. Maybe she feels more like she should take responsibility for having some power to direct events when someone threatens.
If she doesn't, I think she's a pitiful parent. Any parent of a helpless child, who does not ensure that he/she can fend off attack for the sake of that child's safety is pitiful, in my book. Should not be in charge of caring for, much less teaching, that child.
Your thoughts, please.
Is someone who is responsible for a child, but who does not equip herself (himself?) to fend off violent criminal attack, negligent as a caretaker? They get the kid innoculated, they get the kid fed, they get the kid taught, but then when they are out and about, they have no weapon (a firearm, specifically) with which they could FIGHT for the safety of that child. So if it's a carjacker, a robber, a rapist, whoever, the only option of that woman is to capitulate and HOPE for MERCY? Again, I say "pitiful."
-blackmind