WTS sez it's not OK to shoot someone in self-defense because the blood would be on the shooter's hands. That looks to me like more WTS false reasoning. If I rob a bank and shoot people, that's different. But when I'm defending myself and my family in my home, the bloodguilt would be on the intruder himself. Of course if I pick up a broom and broom his face like WTS suggests because I don't want any "bloodguilt" on my own hands, the intruder can then kill me and my family. In that case the bloodguilt should be on the Watchtower's hands because of another stupid teaching. Their position on this can be found in some publication(s). I don't remember which ones, except on pp. 141-142 of the Flock book. You can search Watchtower Library also.
PLEASE NOTE: With all the anti-gun hysterics going on these days, we have to especially careful to make sure our self-defense gun use was actually legally justified, even if defending our home and family, because chances are we might have to go to trial and defend our own right to have shot the intruder. Intruders have "rights," you may hear, and families of criminals do not hesitate to try to get criminal charges filed against defenders. This can happen even in Texas, where gun laws are pretty liberal, and in other states such as California, New Jersey, Illinois, New York, to name a few, you can be sure to be hauled into court and be charged with murder and sued for damages unless the cops can see that it was a blatantly open and shut case of how you had to shoot the bastard or you and others would be dead.
I just remembered about how in that very intense and dangerous Bank of America shootout in North Hollywood, California a few years ago, one of the bastards that had fired at the police thousands of rounds from his automatic weapon right up until the last second of the event wasn't given medical attention "soon enough" and so his relatives sued the LAPD. Even the cops have to be MORE than careful when they use their firearms, even in something as horrific as that shootout.
By the way, the Shootout at the O.K. Corral (actually in a vacant lot in BACK of the O.K. Corral) is still unresolved, according to surviving Clanton family members. They still claim that Wyatt Earp & Co. acted unlawfully when they used deadly force against Ike and his family and friends.
I took a Texas concealed carry course several months ago and was amazed at how you're scored on how many shots you get right smack in the middle of the cardboard-man-silhouette target's breastbone. If you're gonna shoot someone, they want you to really STOP (they don't say KILL, just STOP) him and not mess around!!!
Here is a website that has lots of useful info on what's going on with guns these days: links to articles about The Armed Citizen, pilots and guns, plus much more: http://www.keepandbeararms.com. Happy shooting!!!
