""But," some might say, "who is to decide what is reasonable?"

The answer is that that is what we have prosecutors and grand juries and judges and trial juries for."

No you don't. Society as a whole decides what's reasonable or not, and simply suggesting the judicial system decides what is and isn't stinks of the avoidance of personal responsibility on behalf of gun-owners and others who carry weapons. By the time a case gets to court someone might well be dead already, so the 'what is reasonable' decision has been made by the perpetrator, and the court's role is to arbitrate and apply the letter of the law.

So if you carry a gun, you will be responsible for deciding what reasonable force is, and base your actions on that decision. If you don't know the law, haven't thought about it or don't care then you shouldn't have a weapon. Of course, who can tell though?


"Joe, maybe because I grew up watching westerns but I believe that no one should shoot an unarmed man."

Oh blood and sand, is this sort of thing your moral reference? Hollywood films? Irony, right?