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While Joe-Bob may be legally responsible for them, I personally wouldn't want to spend the rest of my life knowing that I killed an innocent bystander.
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The final chapter of
Lessons from Armed America was the most difficult thing I've ever written. It contains a discussion of what happened after a man shot his own young son during a violent encounter with a felon.
There are real people involved in every tragedy, people who would do anything for a "do over" that life simply won't give them.
If you are the sort of person who
would act to save the lives of your family members, you owe it to them and to yourself to get as much training as you can afford. Even if you do everything right, things can still go south -- but how would you feel if you knew in your heart that you
hadn't done your best for them?
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