By the way, I actually have 4 kids and yes I would still defend myself and my practice. Evil cannot be allowed to take root. Once it starts, it grows and infects everything that it can. A couple of reasons why the U.S. is a great place to be is that the majority of the people still stand for whats right and they will stand up for their freedoms and for justice. Russia is a prime example of a country which has been completely overrun with crime because the people allowed it to take root.
They way I see it; when the deviant mind first conceives to deprive some other person of life or possessions, the criminal takes little thought for the consequences or effects of those actions except that they are consumed with thoughts and desires for self-gratification. The criminal is so selfish and cares so little for others, that they will undertake to deprive someone of that which they have worked so hard for and they will risk harm and damage to others to gratify their selfishness desires, despite the obvious fact that they have done nothing (like put forth hard work and effort) to earn the rewards and possessions that they covet. Once the thought takes hold in the criminals mind to rob another person, and the criminal puts those thoughts into action, the die is cast, the consequences then cannot be completely foreseen or controlled.
But naturally enough, when the criminal is willing to deprive you of your life in order to unjustly enrich themselves with that which they have neither earned nor even expended the least amount of legitimate effort to obtain, they also have at the same time forfeited their lives, for their selfish decision is actually the last one that they will independently make. From then on, they have thrust themselves into a situation whose timeline or events they cannot completely plan for or control. It is completely legitimate then that the individual who has suddenly been forced into this position in which the criminal was willing to deprive you of your life in order to obtain the things that you had worked so hard for
. that then being thrust into this situation which was not of your choosing but was forced on you because of the selfishness of another, you would justly defend yourself unto death?. The criminal was willing to take your life because of his selfishness.
If life is lost, it will not have been my decision to make, because my actions will be already determined. I decided a long time ago that I will not permit evil to flourish and injustice to take place, I will summarily execute judgment and administer justice. The decision to kill was not mine but the criminals. If I die or the criminal, either way the decision was made the second the criminal determined his course of action. My actions were predetermined. When the criminal made the decision to kill (when life is threatened the decision to kill has been made) he also decreed his own execution.