| Violence has a brutal logic to it. If you want to keep a person from stealing, cut off his hands. If you want to keep him from running away, cut off his feet. If those won't stop him, cut off his head. You get the idea.
The thing we need to ask is whether one person's property is worth another person's life. Since worth is subjective, the answer to this question must also be subjective. Unfortunately, that means there is no "right" answer to this question.
On another note, a gun is a killing machine. Plain and simple. Whether used on people or animals, its objective is to kill. Using a gun to intentionally wound or disable a person, from what I understand, takes an incredible amount of skill. The vast majority of people lack this skill. For one of them to try to use a gun as merely a wounding or disabling device is foolhardy at best.
- Rob |