If you shoot to maim, it might not stop the attack, and the criminal can turn around an sue you. Personally, a clear shot to the heart of head is my choice, and yes, I have a pistol. It was my mom's; now it's mine. And I'm a very good shot.
Posts by vienne
-
42What’s Your View On Self Defense?
by minimus inif someone comes to you with a knife or a gun, would you defend yourself if you could?
if someone tried to beat you up , would you physically engage, run away or just try to talk the person out of beating you up or robbing you?
if you did have a gun to defend yourself would you shoot to kill or would you simply aim for the ankle to incapacitate the person?
-
-
-
7
Russia v. Jehovah's Witnesses
by vienne ininteresting.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgwuu0vj2tm.
-
-
vienne
Interesting.
-
8
Belgian Civil Rights Attorney's comments on the Ghent decision
by vienne inthis and several other articles are here: https://bitterwinter.org/excommunication-looking-for-a-balance-of-interests-between-opposite-freedoms/.
-
-
vienne
I think we're over rating the ethics of journalists. Aside from which the author is an attorney, a profession with equally questionable ethics.
-
11
Watchtower caught lying about the real reason Beth Sarim was built
by Diogenesister inanother incredible catch from a you tuber, this time jane doh, who caught watchtower fooling us again, this time over the reasons beth sarim was really built.. of course we knew rutherford lived in beth sarim during the winter (ostensibly because of his poorly chest🙄).
however even we didn't guess he blatantly got the poor jws, or bible students as they were, to cough up from the proceeds of their book sales enough to buy him a "cali-fornication" mansion (for he & the girlfriend😜) with absolutely no pretence (at the time) it was for the "ancient worthies".that came later.... how did she know?
because at the time it was built, in the 1920s, watchtower had no belief that anyone was to live on a "paradise earth" - they had not even formulated the concept of a paradise earth yet for the ancient worthies to live on and believed all jws were to live in heaven.
-
-
vienne
Belief in a paradise earth is found in Zion's Watch Tower from Russell's day. It wasn't new in the 1920s/1930s. What was new was seeing the Great Multitude [Great Crowd] as an earthly 'class.' Prior to 1935 they believed them to be a secondary heavenly class. So in this case there really isn't a lie.
-
8
Belgian Civil Rights Attorney's comments on the Ghent decision
by vienne inthis and several other articles are here: https://bitterwinter.org/excommunication-looking-for-a-balance-of-interests-between-opposite-freedoms/.
-
-
vienne
I don't know if he's a Witness or not. His article does raise the question, though.
-
8
Belgian Civil Rights Attorney's comments on the Ghent decision
by vienne inthis and several other articles are here: https://bitterwinter.org/excommunication-looking-for-a-balance-of-interests-between-opposite-freedoms/.
-
-
vienne
this and several other articles are here: https://bitterwinter.org/excommunication-looking-for-a-balance-of-interests-between-opposite-freedoms/
-
46
Do You Think White People Are Being Discriminated Against?
by minimus insome call it reverse discrimination.
whatever you want to refer to as, in your opinion, are white people being unfairly picked on?
it seems acceptable that if you are white you are viewed with disdain.
-
-
vienne
yes.
-
240
Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial
by Simon inanyone following the derek chauvin trial?.
if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.
there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?
-
-
vienne
A police officer friend tells me that driving overly-cautiously is a good sign the driver is intoxicated. Most officers, he says, would stop the driver to check. It's also a sign that a wellness check is needed. This sounds reasonable to me.
-
47
Why Do People Loot and Destroy When Someone Gets Shot?
by minimus insomeone gets shot and or killed and hundreds of people decide to loot and destroy businesses or whatever else is in their path.
what does this do to make things better?
i really don’t get how they think it makes things better or solves anything..
-
-
vienne
Criminals seek their own advantage. Theft and mayhem in the guise of righteous anger is not new.
-
7
Wanting articles on statistics for the incidence of csa between the Catholic Church and JW
by joe134cd inhad an ultra jw relative say to me the there are only a few examples of csa in the jws.
the catholics are significantly worse.
i’m after statistical information that proves him wrong.
-
-
vienne
This is Professor Folks take on it at a recent conference. I do not know enough to comment, but I found this interesting.