The point was, that this video showed a MURDER.
I think that comment is being
EXTREMELY judgemental. Things aren't the Queen's rule or a Civil Court in the US for the majority of the world's population. You betray your family or your country in the rest the world and death is served up in short order. What you consider a legal trial may or may
NOT be appropriate for their circumstances.
It had no merit as far as learning anything about firearms, ballistics or anything else gun-related.
Firearms and the world we live in isn't the tidy community that we might like. People kill each other. They do it with knives, bombs, guns and land mines among other tools.
This forum is indeed about guns. It is also a tiny part of the realities of our world. As small as it is there are connections now to all of it. How many members and lurkers do we have from the Middle East? How many from the Balkans?
I don't have children. If I did I would shield them from what I thought harmful. I wouldn't show them that particular video. But I would take the time to talk about it if they did see it.
Explaining how people can hate each other so much is not an easy task. I wish I hadn't found a small understanding of that fact myself.
Do you think Canadians have less of a right to defend themselves and their families?
No I do not. But the governments of Canada, England, Australia, China, and a number of other countries in the world believe otherwise.
Let's take another look at the video from a fantasy Palastinian's out look. How about the informant tells the IDF that the neighborhood he lives in has several bomb making factories because he fears for his family's safety. Lets say that the factories are blown up and the neighborhood is destroyed. The bomb makers are killed in the process...dozens of them.
Their bombs are trace-connected to dozens of killings of Israeli civilians, many of them children.
The informant holds a Palastinian passport. He confesses to his neighbors that he informed to the IDF the location of the bomb factory.
The man was trying to protect his family, the bomb makers were trying to secure their homeland and the Israeli's trying to do the same for their own.
Problem is, the dozens killed blowing up the factory were my family. How much of a trial past the confession do I need to judge the informant guilty of having them killed? How do I know his next action will not endanger me?
Things are seldom clean and precise. This video isn't, neither are gun rights. Neither is self defense.
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