I can picture you standing over some guys body with a huge smile on your face that you finally got to kill a man for violating your property. Of course everyone standing around will wonder why you shot the mail man, but that's your business.
It seems like my right to own firearms and defend personal has struck a nerve with those who I assume are of the liberal persuasion on this forum due to all the snarky comments.
You didn't strike a nerve with me, I just don't understand someone who gets off on the idea of killing a violator. Defense is a necessary evil in my eyes, not something to get psyched about. But I thought it was a good joke, so I made it.
There's nothing remotely evil about defense, even if it involves killing. In fact, obstructing someone who intends to violate the innocent in any way is a good thing.
Why is it such a popular assumption that killing is inherently bad? How many people would cry over the corpse of someone who was trying to rape or murder themselves or a member of their family? There's no tragedy when a true violator is killed, just a prevention of tragedy...and maybe multiple tragedies.
Also, to state that a creator is a necessary condition of property rights is a straw man. Like any rights, there is a basis for our property rights in our humanity. Ayn Rand certainly thought so, among countless others, none of whom thought a diety was necessary to argue some objective morality.