"Teach, the children well," Crosby, Stills and Nash once sang. Oh, the truth in those words. The values we, as a society teach each other, are the values that will play out. If we teach that murder can be justified, murder will be practiced. First, one murder, then another of the same kind will follow, as people learn from what they have been taught. Sunday, as shown in the link below, a woman was clear enough of her attacker that she could have escaped. But, the law allowed that she could kill the other person dead, so she did.
What have we taught? What have we wrought?
"Teach the children well," for the values we teach, will be the values that come to be practiced. "You who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by," sang Crosby, Nash and Young. The Zimmerman case, and the case of this woman in Texas make we wonder what code we have chosen to live by. I would that we would teach a higher code than Stand Your Ground.
http://www.khou.com/video/featured-videos/Caught-on-camera--Woman-fatally-shoots-man-at-gas-station-216424271.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVaqZajq-I
I don't see her as being clear of her attacker (with knife) at all.
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