When someone is running after you at night, turning and asking why is NOT a "bad reaction". Hitting them might even be reasonable. Under the prevailing conservative view, shooting first is the ONLY reasonable response. Shooting to kill.


Some of us thought that we might have advanced slightly beyond the Wild West society of vigilante "justice" out the barrel of a gun.

"There’s a reason the Constitution begins “We the people . . .” rather than “We the unconnected individuals who couldn’t care less about one another . . . .” - Eugene Robinson