I seriously wonder why a different approach wasn't taken with this article, though I agree with its premises.

First off, law enforcement authorities do not exist to protect us except as deterrents - what police do is catch criminals, AFTER the damage has been done. This is why there are volumes of laws relating to self-defense.

Which brings me to my second point. There is ample tradition for specific and measured acts of self defense (for instance, the circumstances under which a person may or may not be considered under sufficient threat to use a firearm in self-defense), and the real life situations are MUCH more complicated. The laws aren't perfect, but they can embrace the idea of terminating an attacking process, or even a process which subverts another one into launching the attack.

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