Something that never seems to come up in these discussions of fighting to defend your family and property.
Let us assume you gun down a group of attackers successfully. When you go to scope things, some percentage of them will be wounded, not dead.
Do you kill them in cold blood, leave them to die slowly where they lie, or take them in to patch them up, using up your space, food and medical supplies, the keeping of which was pretty much the point behind shooting them in the first place?
I’m really curious how this would be dealt with. In most of the movies the attackers are all conveniently dead.
b)When you return with the all clear, they were all conveniently dead. No further discussion allowed.
c)Prayer and absolution as required by your faith.
It's not a game, it's not philosophy if it gets to that point. It's survival.
/johnny
I’s say it depends if one of them is able to use a shovel...
Shooting a looter is not "in cold blood."
Hopefully one or two of them are still able to use a shovel. Once they get finished with disposing of their dead then we gonna have us Q&A session. Then those of us who were defending will have a fair trial. And those who were attacking will be found guilty and either exiled or hung/shot. (That is if we are truly in a SHTF all government gone type situation.)
That's when a good knife comes in handy...it saves on ammo. Once they've been questioned they are dispatched. No compassion...No remorse.
Should one decide to choose option number one, ammo can be cheaper and quieter at that stage of the conflict.
Sig and others offer 22LR slide conversions for some of their .3x - .4x caliber semi auto handguns, enabling a quick change of caliber.
I’m really curious how this would be dealt with. In most of the movies the attackers are all conveniently dead.
Leaving your defensive position would be a tactically poor decision to put down the remaining live ones do not waste valuable bullets on the soon to be dead. Forget rendering aid they came to kill you and your family let them bleed out where they lie. If they are attracting to much attention because of noise send a single executioner out under cover of snipers to bayonet them into silence. If any are still alive enough to get up and retreat use your high powered scoped rifle and make sure they never leave the battlefield lest they go back and recruit more "zombies" (the PC term I have grown fond of)to come back for retribution; make no mistake not a single enemy can leave the battlefield alive. When the shit goes down there will be only two types of people remaining those who have/will kill to survive, be that cold blooded or not and those who will be killed by the first group.
Not sure. If they ain’t to loud while they are lying there dying I’d probably let em be.
It theys noisy, it’d probably get on nerves real quick and by unsettling to my luv’d ones. Then I might pray for them, put them out of everyone’s misery and pray for them again.
Of course, unlike the movies, I’d round up anything they mightuh left behind.
Knives, guns ammo, whiskey(any alcohol) ropes, whatever.
If he was worth shootin once he’s worth shootin twice?
Survival requires hard decisions. And the right decision will not necessarily be easy to live with. You can live with a hard decision, or you can die.
It’s not just about protecting your space & supplies. It’s you life. Your family member’s lives. The term “Kill or Be Killed” is meant to be taken literally.
These attackers are going kill me, rape and worse for my wife, probably for the kids also. Do you think I am going to then rescue them with the supplies that are needed to keep my wife and kids alive? If you want to live, you will know what to do.
Our veneer of “civilization” is very thin. It will disappear very quickly.
Any attackers that you don’t kill will know your capabilities the next time they come, which they surely will, and possibly with a lot more friends. That would be the friends that they have told about you and what you must have that is so worth defending.
“Do you kill them in cold blood, leave them to die slowly where they lie, or take them in to patch them up, using up your space, food and medical supplies, the keeping of which was pretty much the point behind shooting them in the first place?”
Joshua was told to ‘kill ‘em all’. Had he been obedient, there would not be the middle east problem that we have today. That is not ‘in cold blood’. Follow the instructions to Joshua, and have a backhoe at the ready.