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Doc_Holliday 131 points ago +131 / -0

Trying to disarm someone with a weapon is justifiable reason for shooting them. There's only one thing they're going to do with that weapon after they get it. They're going to shoot you. Anybody crazy enough to do that is not planning to turn it in for a gun buyback

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BaldyGull 51 points ago +52 / -1

Jogger Showdown 2: Semi-auto Boogaloo

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spezisapedo 14 points ago +15 / -1

Amaud Arbery deserved to be shot for trying to take someones weapon. Change my mind.

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MocksFordComma 3 points ago +3 / -0

He sure as hell wasn't jogging.

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MAGAmillionairess 45 points ago +46 / -1

This is the justification for the Arbery shooting too. People can argue all day that the father and son shouldn't have driven after him, but Arbery attempted to fight and disarm a man with a gun and ended up on the receiving end.

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DoYouBelieveInMAGA 16 points ago +17 / -1

but people can gather outside Tucker Carlson's house because "this is America". Is there a law against following someone in public?

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spezisapedo 5 points ago +5 / -0

if they file a restraining order.

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JohnScott 12 points ago +13 / -1

Yup. And they absolutely had a right to confront him. Any citizen has a right to intervene when they see a crime being committed.

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notalltherescripts 6 points ago +7 / -1

I agree, but it becomes a very muddy line of whether the suspected criminal believes they committed a criminal act. Otherwise it is just some armed dudes approaching a person, trying to detain and question them, and they really don't have to sit down and engage them.

I say this knowing someone, pre cell phones, who held a person a gunpoint who was breaking into a neighbor's house. It took time to call the police, for them to respond, etc. He was charged with kidnapping because even though the burglar was on their front porch peeping in, he hadn't yet caused any damage.

The biggest thing I remember from my CCW training is that before you intervene you better be VERY sure about what you are intervening on.

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JohnScott 3 points ago +3 / -0

Totally agree. The justice system often does not match up with actual justice. The Left has gone to great lengths to ensure that criminals are protected.

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endthefed11 5 points ago +5 / -0

Arbery literally ran around the truck towards the gun owner and started throwing punches. Totally justified. Thats why the original prosecutor refused to charge them.

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DarkBerry 20 points ago +20 / -0

Agreed. Any rational gun owner would do that same. I am sad that Kyle had to kill someone, but happy it was someone who should have been executed on his first go at the legal system. Proud of my boy.

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Randomite 21 points ago +21 / -0

I'm impressed that Kyle, 17, had the presence of mind and composure to not lose his weapon in all of this.

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cob05 19 points ago +19 / -0

He's 17, knows to try to distance himself to avoid conflict, holds onto his weapon and accurately fires from multiple positions as a last resort under EXTREME duress while being attacked by multiple assailants with intentions to harm him as they are trying to disarm him, and STILL has trigger discipline when he gets up and scans for more threats after neutralizing arm guy. Kyle was trained properly and is most likely alive because of that training.

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DarkBerry 2 points ago +2 / -0

Here here.

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JohnScott 19 points ago +20 / -1

Yeah. We joke about it on here, but he has to live with killing two people in one night for the rest of his life. Hope he can properly contextualize it.

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DarkBerry 8 points ago +8 / -0

Right. It isn't something that anyone WANTS to live with, but perhaps he will be able to compartmentalize it with the realization they were going to end him if he didn't end them.

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MakeAmericaLegendary 6 points ago +6 / -0

"As a consequence of your action, this entity will continue. And this entity will not."

It was a worthwhile trade, and I hope he doesn't forget that. His reaction was textbook, and he should be proud of his control and restraint.

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KnottyJane 4 points ago +4 / -0

I've worried about that from the first night... Even more when they arrested him and took him away from his support system. I imagine that he knows he did the right thing, but it still would be hard to process that you ended 2 lives.

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MocksFordComma 1 point ago +1 / -0

Might be a lot of counseling needed by a lot of people in the future.

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SirPokeSmottington -16 points ago +1 / -17

Trying to disarm someone with a weapon is justifiable reason for shooting them.

So that hero that got back the stolen rifles out of a cop's car, from ANTIFA, deserved to be shot?

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kish-kumen 13 points ago +13 / -0

They weren't antifa's rifles, so no.

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zooty 2 points ago +2 / -0
  1. Context is a thing.
  2. "Deserved" is a different thing than "justifiable reason".

To be clear, antifa guy arguably did have a justifiable reason if he feared for his life. However, he was likely an inexperienced little shit who had little idea of the operation of the weapon he was holding and knew he was in the wrong being confronted by a guy exhibiting confidence with a loaded weapon already drawn. He made the right decision and went home that night.