On Self-Defense – Motus Mentis

On Self-Defense

August 14, 2013 – 9:12 pm

Here’s an interesting item from Sam Harris: a round-table discussion of self-defense and the law.

One thing I learned: California is a really terrible place to have to defend yourself. It sounds as insane as Britain, almost.

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JK says

Lordy.

Reading that gave me a severe case of the heebie-jeebies. Thing about me with heebie-jeebies is, I always seem to break into song.

â™ªâ™« Cal if fornia here I do not come â™ª â™«

Posted August 17, 2013 at 4:25 pm | Permalink
Bill says

The anti-gun bias showed up in the end. It is not a matter of a second to get a gun from a lockbox or safe, but rather many seconds to go to the safe, work the lock, obtain the weapon.

Yes, CA gives me the same kind of feelings as JK, but unfortunately, it is not the only state that has such an approach. It is just the extreme end.

The really worrisome thing is the amount of power the police and the DAs have to decide what is self-defense and what is not. A certain cynicism says that it depends on how well they think they can make it stick in front of a jury, regardless of the facts. Note that at one point venue was a consideration in whether a conviction could be obtained.

Posted August 18, 2013 at 3:31 pm | Permalink
JK says

Right Bill.

Don’t know “he” did it as a Venn Diagram but I saw something our late Kurt Vonnegut placed in some published work which, apparently, he foresaw – the DAs being … a liberal front:

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Don’t know even Kilgore Trout would’ve accepted same as “even-handed.”

Posted August 18, 2013 at 7:24 pm | Permalink

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