In Europe, a person has to constantly be on guard for pick-pockets. But we actually don’t have much pick-pocketing at all in the States. Men just put their wallet right in their back pocket and never think about it. In the States, if you value your life, you don’t put your hand in someone else’s pockets. At. All.
Thanks for the broad-sweeping salvific judgement there ajec.Sorry to say but outside of the USA everyone thinks that you are all living in a den of iniquity!!
I think in most Muslim countries they cut your hand off, it is called Sharia Law.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is what Europeans believe but what they believe has little connection with what is actually true. Crime rates in London, for example, are several times higher than crime in New York City and overall crime rates in the US are as good or better than those of the major European countries. Where the US stands out is in murders … which is extremely skewed by black-on-black gang shootings. Remove that component and the view of the US as the wild west is based on no evidence whatever.
And you are more likely to be shot in modern day Chicago than anywhere in the “Wild West”.
I wish you had taken the time to answer my post on this topic. However, I’m starting to see that you are basically operating from a center of prejudice against Americans and not willing to have an honest discussion about guns, violence, and self-defense. And, the millions of people who have immigrated here from other countries goes some distance toward disproving your last sentence.Well, the USA is known as a place full of people with Guns. Gangs. ETC. The whole world is a cesspit of evil and badness. I am sure God is unhappy with the way us Humans are living. Guns are bad, and worse in some countries.
I feel as though another ‘flushing of evil humanity’ is on the horizon, as in Noah’s day!
Sorry to say but outside of the USA everyone thinks that you are all living in a den of iniquity!!
naw jus that sweet lil strumpet in the garage.True.
And I might do something similar - just in case of you want to invade my home
Without getting too graphic, the U.K. definition or rape is actually more narrow than the U.S. definition, which has generally been redefined as “sexual assault.” The definition of non-sexual assault seems to be relatively identical.
You had better ride it like you stole it then!naw jus that sweet lil strumpet in the garage.
That’s why I said “not necessarilly…”
Re-read what was said. The passage applied to those who have a grave duty to defend others. Even one person living on their own still has the** right** to defend themselves, even to the extent of deadly force. A duty is something you must do (morally). A right is something one can exercise, or decline from exercising.
That is not Catholic teaching. That is not something you will find in the Catechism or any other document. It is also not even suggested in the current statement.
That is the world. Catholic teaching is concupiscence is univeral, not just “American.”
I think there is a confusion between what one must do and what one can do. Many martyrs have declined self-defense, for reasons of immediate witness. Other Saints have taken lives in defense of society. Personally, I would rather be one of the latter type saints. (not to be confused with latter day saint)
Well an important distinction is that:
Pope John Paul II clarified that further in Evagelicum Vitae
The defense of the family is certainly included.
A distinction, yes. The point is that we have a legitimate right to self-defense and defense of others, even in the use of deadly force. Exercising this right is no barrier to sactity. That’s all.
The police in Northern Ireland carry guns as the normal practice, so your statement is incorrect.
That is probably why it stuck in brain.