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"One should doubtless keep an open mind...though open at both ends, like the food pipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake." -- Northrop Frye, 'The Great Code'
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Right Reading
- 'How the Scots Invented the Modern World' - Herman
- 'A History of the English Speaking Peoples Since 1900' - Roberts
- 'The Constitution of Liberty' - Hayek
- 'Atlas Shrugged' - Rand
- 'Liberal Fascism' - Goldberg
- 'On The Wealth of Nations' - O'Rourke
- 'America Alone' - Steyn
- 'Londonistan' - Phillips
- 'Free to Choose' - Friedman
- 'The Road to Serfdom' - Hayek
- 'Socialism' - Mises
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- Of cats and men
- Lib MP Keith Martin moves in favour of free speech
- Open borders
- Cowards, scofflaws, appeasers
- Canada’s Charter applies to Afghan detainees?
- What he said.
- HRC colluding with Warman?
- Warren Kinsella & Richard Warman - rotten peas in ...
- "No wonder Canadians are confused and ill-informed"
- Up yours!
- Rex Murphy on "human rights"
- Media "cowardice camouflaged as principle"
- Ezra Levant on the Glenn Beck Show
- “military sugarcoating what is going on..” - Newma...
- The Pope’s Galileo
- Happy New Year Hillary!
- New York Times attacks the troops
- Dumb poll - democracy vs dictatorship
- “Locavores” - incipient food nazis
- 9/11 was an inside job!
- And his trip was going so well!
- “Oh Canada, where are you taking us?”
- Ezra's day in court
- Fusion - the end of a gravy train?
- Ezra in kangaroo court today
- Carbon tax insanity
- The next HRC victim?
- The UK scene
- "Fun with algebra" (isn't always an oxymoron)
- The (not so) “new atheism”
- Alberta, say it ain’t so!
- ‘Human ambitions’ are not ‘human rights’
- Islam’s prison bitch
- More state sponsored suppression of free speech
- Self defense (II)
- Self defense
- Humble Canadian braggadocio
- Another Bhutto post mortem
- The road from serfdom?
- The road to serfdom
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3 comments:
So, people still respect the right to defend yourself, you think this would be a no brainer, but with the coddling of young offenders, I wasn't sure people would agree. Nice to see.
Yes, it is nice to see that Joe Citizen has his head screwed on right.
It seems the only one who don't get it are the lefty 'elites' and the police.
It seems the only one who don't get it are the lefty 'elites' and the police.
Baloney. Right wing crackpots think "minimum force" is supposed to mean do nothing? The wording of the question shows your bias.
Minimum force means you can't fire an Uzi at shadows. It means if you wake up and see someone running away from your house not obviously carrying a weapon, you can't simply drop him with your scoped sniper rifle. But if you catch someone in your house and you can't be certain they are not reaching for a weapon, then you can shoot them. Dead. There is no requirement to try and only "injure" them.
It's called being reasonable.
I'm sure you would not do the same wild extrapolation for your "defend at any cost" wording. Or would you? Do you think "defend at any cost" means chasing the person out of your house, then chasing someone you think is the same guy down the street in your armoured Hummer and shoot him with a rocket propelled grenade? How about shooting all the street people and general lowlife in your area, just in case one of them is the perp. You did say "at any cost".
Be reasonable. And it would be nice if each and every question was not framed as "lefty elites" or something. Sheesh!
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