Reply #33: Your law would have killed my friend [View All]

[Merchant Marine]

A friend of mine grew up with an alcoholic father. The mother divorced and the dad got kicked out of the house by court order. On my friend's 18th birthday, the Dad came to the house drunk and screamed through the window that he was going to kill them both, smashed up some plants and left.

The next night the Dad came back with a baseball bat and smashed through the sliding glass door at the back of the house. He stopped at the stairs because he was staring up into the taclight and barrel of my friend's new shotgun. He ran and the police picked him up a day later.

Under your law my friend would've had nothing meaner than a blunt wooden sword to defend himself and his mother with. Oh, they had a restraining order on the dad too. Hand to hand with his drunk, enraged meathead father would've left my friend battered and bleeding at the top of the stairs. Instead the dad ran and nobody was hurt.

So yeah, that's the rush. Overt threats develop quickly and people realize "I need something to defend myself with". In these scenarios people's lives are at stake, something you should acknowledge if you really care about people's safety.