I just cannot imagine a society which has allowed itself to become so civilized that the basic right of personal defense and defense of one's home and loved ones has become a crime. Further, how can the citizenry of such a society so calmly accept such an unnatural state of affairs?

We may well differ on the degree of force appropriate to a given threat, but to just fall back and allow the violent to bear it away is incomprehensible to an American. We must indeed be a violent society!...Geo