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Re: guns in school?
If you did that in SA, you would be charged with murder, even if the guy was genuinely invading your home.
I don't think that people as kind and decent as either of you would actually be able to 'shoot to kill'. You're not killers, not either of you!
On a lighter note, I saw an episode of Boston Legal in which Denny Crane shoots a mugger in the feet (and the knee).
See it here.
I can't see it in SA, but you might be able to. We thought it was very funny.
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Re: guns in school?
Blocked in Texas as well 
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Re: guns in school?
Im an easy going person and wouldn't hurt a fly, but if some of the things that have happened to me ever happen to any of my kids, id kill. Id go to prison for it too.
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Morwen Oronor
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Re: guns in school?
It's not going to happen but I can quote several people I know who used to say that until they were actually faced with the situation.
But personal history is not science. It would be interesting to see if there are any statistics on it.
From a psychological point of view. One of the reasons that recruits in the army are isolated for months before they are actually sent out into the battlefront is because the army has to undo the natural inability to kill another human.
We are not, or rather people who are psychologically healthy, are not 'wired' to kill. It's not that we're taught it's wrong, we just instinctively know it's wrong. If a child is able to kill an animal without compunction, any child psychologist would see red flags going up because that child is a potential serial killer.
Potential, not actual!
And it is for this reason that new recruits have to be 'brainwashed' into being able to override this.
If you know the story of Patton, he was disgraced because he slapped a soldier who was taken off duty because he was appalled by the killing. We are naturally appalled by the killing of another human.
I say again, no matter what the incentive, I doubt if either of you would actually 'shoot to kill' maybe shoot to injure but even then, your brain would cause you to shake so badly you'd do nothing other than injure, no matter how mad you were.
Just an opinion. I'd like to see if anyone has actually done a study on people who were faced with a situation and either could or couldn't kill and a psychological work-up of both sides.
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Re: guns in school?
It would depend on a lot of factors Mo but I believe if it was them or me or someone I cared for I would have no trouble at all. I've taken the courses on handling my firearm, am rated "marksman" so I can actually aim first and I keep my guns at the ready.
Of course if they came between me and my morning coffee they are dead men!
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No, I couldn't do that. 
I'd probably sit him down and give him a long lecture about what his mother and grandmother would think, while he sticks a knife in me.
I simply couldn't do it. I'd rather talk it through than fight.
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