If he's not able to use lethal force to prevent it, that only leaves him the choice of handing Arbery the shotgun, i.e., handing a shotgun to someone fitting the description of a local felon? Setting aside the lunacy of handing a shotgun to a suspected felon in the midst of a confrontation with him, is it even legal to arm a suspected felon in Georgia?
No, you are leaving out the third choice. Don't put yourself in that situation in the first place.
At the point we're discussing, that's already history. Now take it from there.
At that point you are already a felon.
At that point, I suppose you have put yourself in the situation where you can be carried by six or judged by twelve. Live, die, kill him, you are guilty of more grievous crimes than the guy you are trying to apprehend.
If you choose to make those choices, don't go to the public crying and looking for sympathy. Live with the choices you made and hope the Bubbas in prison do not quickly mete out to you the same justice you meted out on the street.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
