• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    9 hours ago

    The law distinguishes between the life of an attacker and the life of a victim. Any reasonable moral or ethical code will do the same.

    The reality is that the attacker forfeits their right to life for the duration of their attack: the life saved holds greater legal, moral, and ethical value than the life wasted on the attacker.

    Guns are meant to extinguish threats, not lives. They do, indeed, save lives.

    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip
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      3 hours ago

      How do they extinguish threats?

      Seriously this is the same bullshit “the civil war was about states’ rights” argue.