Daily reminder that liberals are insane
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NPCs aside, this matter should be upsetting to anyone who desires the government to hold a monopoly on violence. If a private citizen can stop a crime with violence (without the law turning them into a criminal), then it means the dream of the violence monopoly is further away, and that makes those people angry. In order to achieve that dream, they need to chip away legal self defense. The traditional vector is to corrode gun rights, but here we can see the desire to see this hero turned into a criminal (this would be the government softly declaring a monopoly on violence). In fact, because they believe that government violence monopolies are just, such a man is automatically a dangerous criminal to them.
I think that is how they see things.
It's, "a monopoly on initiating violence".
Self-defense does not intersect with initiating violence.
Originally, yes. But I think it's fairly common now to criminalize the use of violence on someone who isn't attacking you directly.