re: #2 William Barnett-Lewis

The problem is, with guns in America, anyone can find anyone saying anything.

The real questions I have to ask is this - is self defense a right or not? If it is, how far can an individual go? Until this is clear we can not begin to debate the rest of the questions.

The old saying is that my right to swing my fist ends where it would intersect with your nose. How do we apply that idea to these circumstances?

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.