When you have weight of numbers you are in good shape. Unfortunately, you can't have weight of numbers everywhere all at once, just like you can't have the police everywhere all at once. All your community organizing and volunteer associations are fine, even laudable if perhaps slightly creepy, but they still can't be everywhere all the time. Would you even want them to be? So, when that man stands alone, while all the help is elsewhere helping other, to deny him the right to self defense just seems monstrous to me.
I have no idea about rock salt, probably less than 15 yards. Bird shot stings like the dickens at 30 yards, I know that from experience. However, you don't ever want to actually fire the guns. That is the very last thing you want, because that is when blood is spilled and that is when lines are crossed that cannot be uncrossed. Once you shoot, you have to be willing and able to kill, because a load of bird shot won't dissuade everyone.
Dispersing the mob, restoring order, these are truly where the police have to do the work. All personal weapons are for is personal protection of life and property. I wouldn't want armed gangs roaming the streets dispensing "justice" any more than you. I would like to have families and shopkeepers snug in their secured premises with a weapon handy in case other options fail them.
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Date: 12/8/11 18:07 (UTC)I have no idea about rock salt, probably less than 15 yards. Bird shot stings like the dickens at 30 yards, I know that from experience. However, you don't ever want to actually fire the guns. That is the very last thing you want, because that is when blood is spilled and that is when lines are crossed that cannot be uncrossed. Once you shoot, you have to be willing and able to kill, because a load of bird shot won't dissuade everyone.
Dispersing the mob, restoring order, these are truly where the police have to do the work. All personal weapons are for is personal protection of life and property. I wouldn't want armed gangs roaming the streets dispensing "justice" any more than you. I would like to have families and shopkeepers snug in their secured premises with a weapon handy in case other options fail them.