Think carefully about answering this please ... your answer may dictate whether I continue to participate here at the 24HCF or not, not that anyone gives a sh1t. And, truly, not that I personally give a sh1t.
Let's consider the scene. Milwaukie, Oregon has about a 1% black population and a 14 year-old black gang member is standing in my store with a shotgun pointed at my chest, demanding all of my money and all of my jewelry. And I am not supposed to kill the black sonofabitch if I can????
Surely, you must think I am a coward and I have not killed men before.
Consider the following; I have worked literally all of my life to accumulate a couple of thousand bucks and a little gold. Should I allow this 14-year old black puke take away thirty years of my hard work and sweat???
Right, wrong ... legal or not ... moral or immoral ... any right-thinking person is going to press the trigger and send the alleged felon sonofabitch straight to HELL.
And that's just the way it is.
Steve
Ah, but what you describe is armed robbery, not simple theft.
Armed robbery can normally be met with force, even deadly force. Simple theft cannot. Sadly.
I think thieves ought to be shot, but I'm kind of tired of seeing people get ripped off. Sadly, it's NOT legal to shoot a thief. An armed robber? Oh yeah, defend yourself!
Guy
