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» Migisi - Right To Carry

In response to Right To Carry posted by pink101:
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Michigan does have concealed-carry and licensed possession.
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He turned around and fled as soon as he saw her.
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From the article I posted earlier:
http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=808...
"The potential defensive nature of guns is indicated by the different rates of so-called hot burglaries, where residents are at home when the criminals strike.11 Almost half the burglaries in Canada and Britain, which have tough gun control laws, are 'hot burglaries.' By contrast, the United States, with laxer restrictions, has a 'hot burglary' rate of only 13 percent. Consistent with this, surveys of convicted felons in America reveal that they are much more worried about armed victims than they are about running into the police. This fear of potentially armed victims causes American burglars to spend more time than their foreign counterparts 'casing' a house to ensure that nobody is home. Felons frequently comment in these interviews that they avoid late-night burglaries because 'that's the way to get shot".
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"The case for concealed handgun use is similar. The use of concealed handguns by some law-abiding citizens may create a positive externality for others. By the very nature of these guns being concealed, criminals are unable to tell whether the victim is armed before they strike, thus raising criminals' expected costs for committing many types of crimes."
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Perhaps when the burglar cased your home, he figured an elderly couple wouldn't be a threat to him.. you wouldn't be armed?
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I think--where a home owner was found guilty of felony manslaughter for firing on a burglar in a break in.
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Was the burglar INSIDE the home at the time he was shot? Or was he fleeing the premises? If the criminal no longer presented a threat to anyone's life, lethal force wasn't justified.
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The idea that some government can take care of us is plain unadulterated B.S..
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As an ex-police officer, I can attest to that. Ask any woman who's being stalked. Police can do nothing UNTIL her stalker injures or kills her. I'd say that's good cause for carrying a weapon - legal or not. Rather alive and jailed, then dead and buried.

-- posted by Migisi