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israel67 wrote:You can shoot someone to protect life. It's called self defence. Once the threat is over, i.e. the BG is running away, would you shoot him?

The question is whether or not the act was perpetrated.

That is to say that I would probably not fire on an individual that was running away from me if no act of violence had been committed, however,

You can bet your boots that if I happened upon an individual in the act of harming one of my loved ones, and that individual decides to leave at that very moment, I would not hesitate to immediately dispense the appropriate justice. To his face or otherwise.

Toward that end, I DO authorize the state, on my behalf, to euthanize “after the fact�.

israel67 wrote: I'm against the death penalty

So you’re in favor of the death penalty, i.e. the use of deadly force to PREVENT a violent episode,

But you are against the death penalty AFTER the fact?

I find this dichotomy fascinating.