re: #49 Obdicut

There is no way to make self-defense laws crafted so that private citizens are on equal footing with criminals. This is because criminals are willing to break the law. The only way to make citizens equal with criminals in a confrontation is to remove the law entirely.

Sorry, but that is just wrong. What you have to do is allow the innocent the means to have a fighting chance to save themselves. You can not rely on the text of a law alone. You use the whole system as intended, to look at the available evidence and make the best decision possible. You have laws that allow us the tools to survive an attack.

Where you don’t do that you have more victims that go down to criminal acts. And that is why the right to certain weapons in certain circumstances is appropriate. That is why martial arts are appropriate. That is why convicted criminals have to break the law to carry or own a weapon and you and I do not.