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notintoguns wrote:
If I'm a bad , bad, bad criminal, but I am unarmed, would you shoot me? I just want your wallet.
I'll assume that the question isn't rhetorical and that you aren't trying to bait us.
And what, morally, entitles you to my wallet? There are consequences for actions. If you engage in the criminal act of robbery, why would you be surprised if you are met with resistance by your victim? That resistance may or may not involve shooting you. Are you suggesting that the act of someone demanding your wallet should be accommodated or accepted or excused?
I think almost everyone on this site would prefer NOT to shoot you. We don't want to be put into a situation where we are the victim of a crime at all. The difference between us and others is that we can fight back should the situation require it.
As for being unarmed, by this I assume you mean with a firearm. That is a consideration but there are many other ways to be dangerous than to just be armed. Do you have a knife? Do you have a pipe or a chain in your hand? Are a martial arts specialist where your body itself is a very effective weapon? Are you with a group of 5 such that I am outnumbered?
The true answer is that the
situation, not rhetoric,dictates what most of us would do. The greater you press an advantage or an attack and the more threatened the victim feels, the more likely you are to be met with force, perhaps lethal force.
Bottom line: if you think it is unfair disproportional force to get shot while robbing someone, don't risk your life by doing it. Sure, a jury might or might not convict the gun carrier of some crime, but you are still dead.
SA-TX
