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Re: Tony Martin case: You can't {make up} better criticism of Liberals!
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:42:58 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli wrote:

Perhaps most of you think I would be over-reacting but frankly my life and
the lives of my loved ones comes first inside my own home.

  I think the real difference lies in what you and I identify to constitute an
immediate threat to oneself and one's family.  It seems that you equate the act
of breaking-in with the intent to inflict bodily harm, whereas I distinguish
between the break-in and the intention of injury.  Granted, some cases of home
invasion appear to be motivated primarily by the desire to inflict harm, but
such invasions are a statistically smaller portion of break-ins overall.

  Another hypothetical example occurred to me over the weekend, evoking a
previous debate.  I'd be interested to hear your response:

  8.  The intruder is a woman who doesn't know that she's four weeks pregnant;
you shoot her in the gut to incapacitate her and thereby kill her embryo; are
you responsible for the death of her innocent child?

     Dave!



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  Re: Tony Martin case: You can't {make up} better criticism of Liberals!
 
(...) As the child is under her care and if through her ill-advised actions she gets shot in self defence, I would say that the fault lies with her. -Mike Petrucelli (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Tony Martin case: You can't {make up} better criticism of Liberals!
 
(...) Actually I did here: (URL) (...) Ok now I think I am starting to see where you guys are coming from. I realize I may have come off a little "hard set" too. I would not be shooting at noises, as most of your example seem to suggest. I would (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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