exactly. quite different to approach it from the sunny side of hindsight, sitting nice and safe with no strange dOOd downstairs in your dark house.

and if you're a burglar, you gotta assume you're taking your life into your own hands if you break into an occupied house. What's that old adage about 'playing with fire'?

...and as much as you and I probably agree that something needs to be done about gun control here in this city, advocating prison for some guy who shot a burglar in his house as an example of why their needs to be gun control is exactly the kind of stuff gun nuts use to refute arguments for greater gun control, etc. Like it or not.

Please do show me where I said I thought the homeowner should do prison time! I'd really like to know.

My Dad always told me, I hope you never have to shoot, but if you do, kill them. A dead person can't sue.

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This guy breaks into your home, your going to sit there and just dial 911 and hope for the best? It's your home with you kids. I would do ANYTHING to protect my family in my home.

Yes, people should wake up and take care of themselves in their homes.

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Sustainable Building
From Foundation to Finish
www.thestockgroup.net

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Reagan

Thank you all for sharing your opinions!

I'm a person who believes in non-violence. I think that the availability guns is a huge part of the gun violence problem we see in American cities. And we do not see it in cities in developed countries that do not allow citizens to carry a gun.

To me it's that simple.

Thanks for listening.

America is a very violent place because it is a part of our culture. We are a fierce nation. We are not like Europeans. The European experience of war is that it is a disaster which ruins their countries and kills millions of people. The American experience of war is that it is an effective way of accomplishing our goals. Read your history.

With all due respect, you need to revisit crime statistics for those "more civilized" countries you keep referring to.

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/...1/205139.shtml

http://www.reason.com/news/show/28582.html

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=4210

Violent crime rates in the UK & Australia (both of which have very severe gun control laws) have surpassed the US. You are far more likely to be the victim of a home invasion or robbery/assault in the UK than in the US.

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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis

This sounds like the narration for the US war propaganda films during WWII.

If you want to believe the Earth was created during the Wiemar Republic and only count everything past that point, and ignore the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Stalin and the Catholic Church... be my guest.

Oh yeah, there was this Civil War thingie I heard about which tore our country apart and took almost 100 years to completely heal up... did that happen here?

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WHYY pays their CEO $750,000 a year. So WHYY should I renew my membership? Seems they have no problems finding money and spending it unwisely.


And this is why you should donate to PACCA, not PETA:

In September, PETA made headlines in Vermont and across the nation for asking Ben & Jerry's ice cream to use human breast milk in their ice cream, instead of cow milk

Why dont we all just play one round of "i declare war" to settle it once and for all.