Quote:I practice often. Twice a week on average. I carry a sidearm. I have for years. I have pulled it on another when warranted. I have never crossed that line because I didn't have to. I have never had a single issue with how I have reacted to a situation legally either. I think I have a good grasp on how it works. Legally, morally, etc.

 

I would take someone out in that situation, and would have zero regrets. Why? Because your scenario, while slanted toward mitigating the acts of a felon, is meaningless. If some kid needs surgery for their baby, they should be on the phone to St. Jude's Children's hospital, which doesn't charge. They should be meeting with anyone who will listen to get their child the care that they need. That's a normal, ethical, legal, and moral course of action. What is not a course of action however, is to commit a violent crime. Think carefully about what violent crime means. It involves traumatizing a person through no fault of their own. You inflict violence upon an innocent person. Once one chooses to cross that line and decides to remove humanity from their thought process, they, at that very moment, forefeit their right to have others question their intentions or future intentions.

 

For every one of those kids killed as you have outlined, DOZENS of innocent people who are trying to just live life and make ends meet legally are slaughtered by the very type of people you want people like me to stop and analyse prior to taking action. That moment may cost me my life, so no thanks.

 

You can spin it and mitigate WHY someone would do such a thing, but you can't change what was done. What was done was a violent crime, and law abiding citizens have a right to protect themselves from those who commit violent crime. Until you legalize violent crime, you have no basis to argue someone shooting a violent criminal in the process of a crime being committed. Zero basis.