Stand Your Ground

The NRA and Chris W. Cox, on page 20 of their 2/2014American Rifleman magazine, wrote this: "Self-defense is a fundamental human right of all people, and the NRA will not back away from supporting laws that recognize this principle."

We need stand your ground laws, whether on the street or in our private homes. We must be able to defend ourselves and a conceal and carry permit allows this. When we are victimized by intruders and robbers, we should be able to arrest them, detain them, wound then, or if we must, we need to be able to shoot them.

The private person has dignity and worth, No one has a right to inflict bodily harm on her, and if she needs to be well-armed and carrying to back of this right of hers to self-defend, let Congress enact no law to strip her of her constitutional and natural right to protect herself by any means necessary when under attack.