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Okay.
A buddy of mine was nearly killed by a flashlight.
The liberal media would make a huge issue of it had we shot him. Which we would have been legally allowed to do.
Different situation. I wouldn't have made any issue of the guy who hit your buddy with the flashlight being shot.
As, If I it someone in the head with my flashlight or baton, it is considered lethal force.
And if someone uses a rock as a bludgeon, that should always be worthy of lethal force in return.
When it comes to non-firearm weapons, the public, you included, are clueless as to how lethal certain objects can be. That, and the media just loves to under-report the threat of the item in the manner it is used, well, as long as the police aren't using it that is. Because If I was beating someone with a flashlight in the head, you damn well better believe the media would report it as a serious incident of a rogue cop trying to kill someone. Hell, that would happen if I went to hit a guy in the common peronial nerve and the idiot stuck his head down there in the middle of my swing and I wasn't able to adjust fast enough and he got struck.
Again, this isn't about using a rock as a bludgeon.
So, you disagree with the Border Patrol, U.S. Department of Justice, etc that rocks can be considered lethal weapons.
No. That's an oversimplification and requires one to purposefully ignore the actual arguments that have been presented.