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Originally Posted by bogie
If a criminal breaks in to my house and I'm holding a shot gun in another room and I yell out to the criminal "hey, I have a gun, I don't want to kill you, but in 5 seconds I'm going to!" and then I rack my shot gun really loud and the person runs away, is that protecting myself with violence, or non-violence?
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No, but it is protecting yourself with a credible and undeniable threat of violence.