When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
I only direct in self-defense.
The need for self-defense naturally exists outside and inside the home, I would hold the 2nd Amendment applies outside the home.