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Florida Man tries to carjack two different cars, both drivers pull out guns

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June 13, 2018, 01:31 PM
nasig
Florida Man tries to carjack two different cars, both drivers pull out guns
quote:
Originally posted by RichardC:
Bad things happen after a good shooting.


Reardon made his own decision to shoot, or not to shoot.

Hopefully, neither you or I will have to.

After being cut twice by someone close enough to thrust a blade into me or slash an artery I'm not sure I would have been able to hesitate long enough to percieve any changes in his demeanor or direction. It doesn't really say what kind of instrument he was doing the cutting with so that may have had some influence.
June 13, 2018, 01:55 PM
ArtieS
quote:
Maybe some people feel that taking a life should be something you Have to do, not something you Get to do.

Once he got his gun out, while legally he may have been able to shoot him, the news story indicates that the perp went from badass to pussy rather quickly. I guess he could have shot him while he ran away.

This. I don't want to kill someone who is retreating, even if I have a legal right to do so.

Killing someone, even a dirtbag, should be a last resort, not a menu option.



"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."

Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.