{"id":48,"date":"2002-02-18T01:35:07","date_gmt":"2002-02-18T09:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=48"},"modified":"2004-10-31T19:44:49","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T03:44:49","slug":"duty-to-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"duty to retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"9842817\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypundit.com\/archives\/003603.php\">Bill Quick complains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The notion that one cannot protect one&#8217;s property with deadly force, if necessary, essentially means that the entire concept of property ownership is a farce.  It means that if a man with a knife demands my car, even though I am armed with a firearm, I must allow him to take my vehicle.  Even worse is the enshrinement of state-ordered cowardice inherent in the notion that you have a &#8220;duty&#8221; to retreat from &#8220;situations that might escalate into using deadly force.&#8221;  This places the balance of social power entirely in the hands of any lawless desperado willing to threaten to use deadly force. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not convinced that it&#8217;s that bad.  As I see it, if your thug shows you a knife with the implied threat to use it, he <em>has already<\/em> escalated to deadly force; if I&#8217;m wrong on that point, then your <em>showing<\/em> a gun is not deadly force either.  Either way, you&#8217;re not obligated to assume that he&#8217;ll put his knife away if you give in.<br \/>\n<i>Disclaimer<\/i>: That&#8217;s logic, but I can&#8217;t promise that it is law!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Quick complains: The notion that one cannot protect one&#8217;s property with deadly force, if necessary, essentially means that the entire concept of property ownership is a farce. It means that if a man with a knife demands my car, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=48\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}