Reply #45: My own philosophy, [View All]

[The Green Manalishi]

Which might, or might not have anything to do with a liberal. Democratic, progressive or any other sort of agenda on any specific facet of any specific issue. Whilst I have always found the Democratic candidate preferable to the Republican one, and have voted thusly, I in no way am beholden to any specific agenda outside of the greatest good for the greatest number at the lowest cost :-)

In my humble and respectful opinion your statement is an unfruitful, ineffective and discursive example of reductio ad absurdum that would have earned a 'd' in freshman high school rhetoric. The age (or race, socio-economic status, gender, intoxication or intent) of someone attempting to gain forceful ingress into a domicile is completely irrelevant; old enough to kick down a door, old enough to kill you, old enough to be defended against with a lethal level of force first and all other matters investigated and attended to in due order later with, ideally, complete exculpability, at least in the legal sense (despite the morbid and dishonest stereotypes that many firearms restrictionists seem to have, I would be traumatized and probably permanently so if I had to ever use lethal force in defending myself or my domicile, however in my opinion the greatest good for the greatest number would come about if robbers, rapists and carjackers were at the highest possible risk of finding themselves violently and rapidly expiring any time they ply their tactics, YMMV).

Regards