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To: one_less who wrote (4090)	11/2/2006 5:53:11 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10087

I agree. It could be argued that an insane human attacker is not responsible for his behavior. The same argument could be made about a rabid dog, and certainly about a tumor. But that doesn't mean that you would not be justified in using deadly force against any of those threats. Certainly one would properly have much more concern about the welfare of the schizophrenic young man than that of a tumor or a wild dog, but such concern doesn't properly remove the right to self defence.