No Duty to Retreat Violence and Values in American History and Society
Richard Maxwell Brown
In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West’s first notable "walkdown." One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Bernard Goetz shot four threatening young men in a New York subway car. Apart from gunfire, what do the two events have in common? Goetz, writes Richard Maxwell Brown, was acquitted of wrongdoing in the spirit of a uniquely American view of self-defense, a view forged in frontier gunfights like Hickok’s. When faced with a deadly threat, we have the right to stand our ground and fight. We have no duty to retreat.
年:
1994
出版社:
University of Oklahoma Press
语言:
english
页:
268
ISBN 10:
0806126183
ISBN 13:
9780806126180
文件:
PDF, 8.99 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1994