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There is a languge that all human beings understand perfectly when they are staring into the muzzle of a gun. Jeff Cooper once wrote about the importance of the law-abiding citizen's constitutional right to own a firearm: "Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."

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Addendum and a prediction: the "heat of passion" defense to reduce sentencing of violent criminals and murderers will presumably also become more common when a person who is a victim of "hate speech" in the form of a racial slur attempts to or succeeds in murdering someone who dared to utter the fordbidden word.

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Cornell Law School website: Justifiable homicides are not the same as homicides committed “under the heat of passion or with diminished capacity, which may be considered mitigating circumstances that reduce the actor’s culpability with regards to a killing.” As for the trans nurse/murderer and its comrades in arms, we can probably expect to see more of the following courtroom defense of murderers in the years ahead: “Heat of passion has also been defined by multiple courts. The Tenth Circuit ... defined heat of passion as ‘such a state of passion, or hot blood, or rage, anger, RESENTMENT, terror or fear as to indicate the absence of deliberate design to kill or as to cause one to act on impulse without reflection’’.” I resent you, therefore killing you is not called for, but understandable. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/heat_of_passion

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