Suppose someone kicks in your door at 2 am. Suppose he has no shirt, but does have a bloody carving knife in his hand. Suppose he is yelling incoherently, but you can make out the word “kill.” What would you do?
- Turn your back, go get you cell phone, dial 911, wait for a reply, and make police promise to use nonviolent methods.
- Turn you back, run to the kitchen, and try to select a knife as long as the intruder’s knife, so as to be a “proportionate” response.
- Talk to the intruder and explain the virtues of nonviolence and the benefits of yoga.
- Grab your firearm and shoot the intruder before he can kill you or a family member.
If you are threatened with deadly force, you have a legal and moral right to use deadly force yourself. You don’t need to find a knife of equal length. You don’t need to use a knife at all, if you have a gun, or a baseball bat, or whatever you can get a hold of. Your life is a gift of God, not of some government. This necessarily includes a right to defend it.
The same applies to Israelis, and to Jews in general. This so elementary that if you cannot understand it, there is something wrong with you.
