You have a right to protect yourself and your family by using reasonable force. So as an example, if you shoot a mime because you felt that he was threatening to lock your family in an invisible box, your probably using unresonable force.
On the suicide bomber thing, most of them are starting to use deadman switches, which means the bomb goes off if the pressure is removed from the switch itself. In other words if you kill or incapacatate him your probably going to set off a bomb.
Most people are woefully undertrained in the art of taking a terrorist down who has been training for this one moment for his whole life.
I hate the idea of citizen joe carrying concealed weapons in the street, there are too many idiots or loose cannons out there who will be opening beers and turning off thier lights with a gun. Plus a pistol is the least accurate weapon you can have, its pretty easy to miss someone who's further then 10 feet away, and as a civilliain are you going to keep your head in the crisis, understand the situation and act accordingly,or are your going to dive from behind a car, emptying a clip in the general direction of the crisis.
A friend once told me that in the even of a bombin the only way that you can protect your family is to dive for cover and get on top of them.
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