Absolutely, and Arbery acted most stupidly of the four involved, with that. Trying to grab a shotgun from a guy pointing it at you isn’t very bright.
If Arbery had remained cool and waited for the police to show up, he would be alive and likely could have sued them for all they were worth. Typical lack of impulse control.
Thought experiment: Imagine you are a black guy in southern Georgia, knowing you are in a “white” neighborhood, being chased by 2 trucks of rednecks, with a shotgun pointed at you at close range. They aren’t the police, and haven’t mentioned “citizen’s arrest”. Imagine you know they have reason to believe you’ve been up to no good. Through a mix of history, experience, community stories and myths, and the current obsession with “lynching”, you expect the absolute worst from this type of white men. In the adrenaline rush of being chased, would you assume they were about to kill you?
Grabbing at a shotgun barrel has low odds of success, but it’s not so stupid for someone who believes he’s about to be killed if he does nothing.
BTW, if McMichaels and Bryan had shown “impulse control”, would they have chased after someone?