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Subject: Re: [OM] Re: olympus-digest V2 #1850
From: "Lex Jenkins" <lexjenkins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:07:51 GMT
Actually Texas is among the states which do allow the use of deadly force to protect personal property. Partly that stems from an Old West code that recognized that theft of certain personal property - a horse, etc. - was tantamount to endangering the victim's life as well, by leaving him stranded in a hostile environment.

Modern logic - which statistics bear out - is that criminal behavior is too unpredictable to assume that they will be content to take one's property and not one's life. It is an unfortunate trait of the American criminal that he is all to willing to kill without provocation. One reason is because of the status it earns him when he is eventually caught and imprisoned - if he's killed on the outside, he's less likely to need to kill on the inside to prove himself.

If anything can be legitimately criticized about the American system, it is not the 2nd Amendment, but an increasingly corporatized prison system that needs a steady diet of warm bodies - especially non-white bodies - readily fed to it by a corrupt justice system.

Whoo!  Talk about inviting digression.

Lex
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From: Wm Biesele <biesele@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:46:54 -0600

It's not just a pacifist that should do that, it's the law. The use of deadly force
is covered under some very specific laws and precedents none of which
allow deadly force to protect personal property...
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