Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Is this one self-defense, manslaughter, or murder? [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Yes it is likely the couple may have been robbed if he had not dropped the gun.
It is not certain that the robber would have even gotten away, even if the initial victim didn't know the cops were right there. Just like it is not certain the robber would have harmed the initial victims.
I am 'sympathetic' in that I take a strong response to the idea that handing over your stuff is even a good idea in that situation. Fuck anyone who wants me to buy my own safety because they are holding a gun. But he wasn't holding a gun. He wasn't presenting a threat.
To argue that he had any right to stop the robber for to prevent a future crime, is to acknowledge this was truly an act of vigilantism, not self defense.
Unacceptable. His act threatens the ability of others to justifiably defend themselves when under actual threat, because issues like these are used to alter laws that might otherwise protect a true victim defending him or herself from a true threat.