Re: Lejeune Marines and roomie 2, burglars 0
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Yasherka</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I love a happy ending.</div></div>
Don't know how I missed reading your post before I put mine up.
Few years back, I put this idea across to TSRA, VCDL and several other national, STATE civil rights groups that they concoct a certificate, ceremony, and a box of ammo for every citizen who lawfully shoots and kills another in the act of committing a crime of violence.
A "Citizen's Self Defense Medal" or certificate would go far in helping people mute the - often - inevitable "cognitive dissonance" between the idea of "thou shalt not kill" coupled with mass media hysteria, and the simple fact that they are alive now.
Shooting someone isn't easy. I did it when I was 18 to protect my mom from a home intruder/invasion. He didn't die, not that time, took him a few more attempts until someone else blew him away with a larger caliber gun. Took me a few months to "get over it," but I'd do it again. Resolutely, not happily.
Giving such a citizen's award would have the effect of "social norming" the stand your ground laws specifically, and the RKBA in general. It would reinforce the action as ACCEPTABLE over being beaten, raped, or otherwise assaulted. It would promote healing in the individual who would be PRAISED and SUPPORTED for taking right action, while the leftist media would, naturally, demean, dismiss, ostracize, isolate, and ridicule anyone who was high profile enough (look at George Zimmerman. We still don't know his ancestry/race. Not that it matters, but the media IMMEDIATELY told us he was WHITE, hispanic, to attract the race-baiters out of Chicago and NYC), and silly enough to "take matters in their own hands" and use deadly force to protect life.
It's what RKBA is all about.
