re: #9 BryanS

How far can an individual go? The answer should be fairly simple in principle—there should be a reasonable person standard for asserting a right to defend against a threat, and the threat should be of an immediate nature that would not allow for calling on the intervention of police to protect against the threat.

Really? Even though the SCOTUS upheld, in Bowers v. DeVito, that “…there is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered.”

Or the case recently where a woman was on the phone to 911 for over 20 minutes (no cops in sight) when the guy started breaking through her door? If she hadn’t been armed, she and her children would be dead.

When your child - not you, not even your wife - when your baby’s life is on the line and seconds count, do you really want to have to wait for the police to finally get there?

Please always remember this - a gun incident is never as pretty and easy as either the NRA or the Brady groups would have you believe.

Hard cases make bad law. $5 will get you $20 that still more bad law comes from good intentions caused by this.