Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. --

We still played good defense in the first half, but our shots just weren't falling, ... Our defense was clicking. In the second half, we just started knocking them down. We were attacking, and our energy was up.

We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand uses of guns for self-defense occur every year. We know from smaller surveys of a commercial nature that the number may be as high as two-and-a-half or three million. We don't know what the right number is, but whatever the right number is, it's not a trivial number.

It was her unconvincing, elusive self-defense that continued to damn her.