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Gun Control & RKBA

beevul

(12,194 posts)

7. Duty to retreat laws are the definition of uncivilized.

Reply to Kaleva (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 6, 2015, 07:34 PM

Oct 2015

They presume to dictate a course of action for times when events can have a billion variables.

NOBODY should be required to retreat. Ever.

Not to mention how a requirement to retreat might just enable certain criminal mindsets.

Fuck.All.That.

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