Art Eatman
Moderator In Memoriam
For the absolutists:
Ever been in a fight? Even a teenage brannigan, not necessarily a late-night brawl in a bar...
"What if": You feel justified in slugging some guy, and when he falls he does the old crime-novel deal of hitting his head on something very hard--and dies.
You had no intent whatsoever of causing a death, but you did. Odds are, there's historical reason to believe you'd get some prison term for this unintended homicide.
Is a total loss of civil rights justified for this sort of crime?
For absolutists on the Second Amendment: Is it reasonable to go BEYOND the intent of those who wrote it? They weren't all-inclusive for all people and all the time...
Art
Ever been in a fight? Even a teenage brannigan, not necessarily a late-night brawl in a bar...
"What if": You feel justified in slugging some guy, and when he falls he does the old crime-novel deal of hitting his head on something very hard--and dies.
You had no intent whatsoever of causing a death, but you did. Odds are, there's historical reason to believe you'd get some prison term for this unintended homicide.
Is a total loss of civil rights justified for this sort of crime?
For absolutists on the Second Amendment: Is it reasonable to go BEYOND the intent of those who wrote it? They weren't all-inclusive for all people and all the time...
Art