Everyone loves to quote the old cliché ‘An armed society is a polite society’, but judging from most of the responses here, few really mean it.
That phrase might have been true in an era where a higher percentage of the population was imbued with Christian values.
These days gangstas have zero respect for life, including their own. It appears most of the murders are armed blacks killing each other.
It’s a far cry from reaching that point yet. When it is well-known and taught that guns are everywhere, and to behave because you might get killed, THEN, we have reached that point. Right now, the ferals run wild because they know, for the most part, there is nothing to fear—in fact, they are being protected. When they know for an almost certainty they will be shot, or severely harmed, then, we have reached that point.
That’s not an old cliche, that’s Heinlein! Beyond This Horizon, to be specific ... the same novel that provided the premise of GATTACA, although the storyline was quite different. There was one scene which was practically a long quote from the book.
“An armed society is a polite society’, but judging from most of the responses here, few really mean it.”
So you side with the vandals? Nice.
Ask yourself this: when was civility transgressed and by whom? And when was civility restored, and by whom?
Shooting a vandal who is damaging your property after dark supports both civility and a polite society. Deal with it. Boo-frickin-hooo.
Shooting tresspassers and vandals used to be how peace and civility were guranteed in America until the advent of the Nanny State. Read some frickin US history before posting why don’t you?
If AR has a castle doctrine he walks.
An armed society becomes a polite society through the process of rude fools being killed off.