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Originally Posted by StewiesMom If you kill a dog or another person, that makes you a murderer, too. |
I sort of feel like someone is playing a sick joke on me. I cannot believe that you really believe this or that you have thought this through to it's logical conclusions.
NO, this is not what the law says.
If you kill someone in self defense or defense of another you are not a murderer, you are a hero! A murderer is someone who has premeditatedky planned a killing with malice aforethought. It is a very complicated criminal law definition.
Our soldiers in war are not "murderers" just because they kill other people. Our police officers are not "murderers" just because they kill other human beings.
You say you would "pull your child away" but you would not hurt the 15 year old in my analogy. What if the 15 year old did not stop but continued to stab your child and you.
When do you feel it would be okay to inflict harm on the attacker? Is there no point where it is okay to defend yourself or someone else?
You say most dogs run off when they are confronted. This has not been my experience and I know it is not the case with pit pulls.
They will come back again and again and that is even if you can get their jaws open after they have loccked down! That boxer ripped my Peppy back out of my mother'r arms after she rescued him. You can bet I was trying with all my might to get that boxer to let my poodle go!