Nobody wants to approve of murder, I don't believe. If we have laws that allow murder, we hopefully will be anxious to change them. Does this change if we are gun advocates? Hopefully not. Hopefully, gun advocates want no part of condoning murder. They support the Second Amendment, but hopefully do not let their support of the Second Amendment lead them to condoning murder.
Thou shalt not kill is one of the Ten Commandments. Killing is one of the gravest sins a person can commit.
Law in Utah states that a person is justified in killing another if he or she believes it was necessary. Such language leaves the killer with determining whether the killing was justified. He or she just has to say they felt threatened, no matter if they were not threatened, at all. If they say they were threatened, that is the end of it. The other person is dead. Often there are no witnesses. Just say you were threatened, and no one can question you.
Is such a law just? Is it an invitation to murder?
It will help if the other person had a gun, or a knife. If the crime scene shows the other person had a gun or knife, then it will seem reasonable to assume that person could have threatened the killer.
We need not get rid of the right to protect yourself, and the right to protect your family. These things are good. We do not want to take away these necessary freedoms.
But, the favor of a law can carry too far. When it allows not only the good people to kill those who are bad, but those who are bad to kill others, then that law has reached beyond what is righteous. Evilness comes not so much in marching alone on its own, but in marching alongside the righteous. We should not allow murders to march alongside the righteous.
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