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50+ year-old woman kills attacker in self-defense

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HAL9000 said:
Nope



No she didn't.



Yup. I'm not going anywhere.
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Enlightening.

This woman was attacked by someone with a knife. That's irrefutable. Now you might say (and I wouldn't be the least surprised if you did) that this was a joke or something like that. If that were the defense in a court of law I suggest that wouldn't prove effective.

Given: She complied with the law as it exists and not as you would like it to be-

Given: She was threatened with deadly force-

Given: That the gun offered her protection that the police could not simply because of the timeliness of the situation-

Can you make an argument in a court of law that she acted wrongly?

If the choice was between using the gun or dying which was the best action?
 
nick1985 said:
My grandfather bagged a few Germans in the Battle of the Bulge.

Should he be arrested?
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War is completely different, I have never been in a war, it's not for me to judge them.

Numenorean said:
Murderers should be arrested. This woman is not one.
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I disagree.

Hayabusa Rider said:
Enlightening.

This woman was attacked by someone with a knife. That's irrefutable. Now you might say (and I wouldn't be the least surprised if you did) that this was a joke or something like that. If that were the defense in a court of law I suggest that wouldn't prove effective.

Given: She complied with the law as it exists and not as you would like it to be-

Given: She was threatened with deadly force-

Given: That the gun offered her protection that the police could not simply because of the timeliness of the situation-

Can you make an argument in a court of law that she acted wrongly?

If the choice was between using the gun or dying which was the best action?
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Obviously in that case the best option would be to kill, that doesn't mean she shouldn't be arrested. I have no idea what argument I could make in a court in America as I don't know anything about American law.

Morally do I think what she did was acceptable? No.
Legally was it? You'd have to check the law local to the area.
 
This is why I have a firearm under the lid of my toilet tank in a holster suspended above the water.

And who says .22 isn't a defense round!
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
Given: She complied with the law as it exists and not as you would like it to be-
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While what a person does might be in accordance with the law, that should not imply that the law nor the actions are correct or infallible.
If the choice was between using the gun or dying which was the best action?
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Depends on you. I might choose to die instead. If it is a matter of choice of who dies, you or another person, is it morally accurate to say there is a best action? I'd rather hesitate and consider this dilemma before letting self-defense immediately choose for me. I should also point out the only reason the only 2 choices is shoot or die is because of a variety of assumptions and choices made on the part of the grandma in this example, not the attacker.
 
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