Azrael00023 opened this issue on Feb 04, 2005 ยท 80 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Sat, 05 February 2005 at 10:05 PM
Shooting someone for stealing your things isn't 'self' defense, it's 'stuff' defense. I'd rather let someone steal my things than take a life. Things can be replaced. Lives cannot.
Once again -- you have no way of knowing that "stuff" is all that they are after.
You takes your picks, and you lives with the results.
Gun deaths are few and far between. I believe the national yearly average is about 300 and that's mostly in the large cities and criminal/police related
This is no doubt true, but I'd point out that Australia has a couple of things that the US doesn't......
These two things make a difference.
The #2 reason listed above also has a lot to do with the extremely low crime rate in Japan.
In spite of the fact that Japanese entertainment on TV and in movies is much more violent than standard fare here in the US -- the Japanese have a tiny crime rate.
Japan is homogenous. On top of other cultural factors.
No, this isn't the 'Coop........
So it's a (relatively) quiet discussion.
And quite a bit OT.