You think running at a man with a gun in broad daylight with police sirens approaching rapidly and in full view of the public is a better idea than just staying away from the guy with the gun and waiting for police?
I see very little danger from staying away from people *IF* you think they are going to shoot you. (Which I do not believe for a minute that "gangsta' thug Arbery thought they would do.)
I see massive and very probable danger from running at a man holding a shotgun and then hitting him in the face.
If your judgement is that you are better off running at a man with a shotgun than simply stop approaching the man with the gun and wait for the police, then I think you have very poor judgement.
I think Arbery was not afraid of these men, but he was afraid of getting arrested by the cops. I think Arbery imagined himself to be a "gangsta" thug and he wasn't gonna let no white boys embarrass or hassle him and he did what a thug would do. He ran up and tried to put the beatdown on one of them.
I have a good grasp of how black "gangsta" types think because I used to hang around with several of them, and they weren't gonna let some punk @$$ white boy intimidate them with a gun.
I had one friend that actually walked up to a guy and took his gun away from him.
Brave they are, but also very stupid.
Probably why it’s better to carry a pistol than anything else.
You have a perfect right to shoot anyone drawing down on you unless you are on someone else’s private property or they are a cop.
I’m *very* intimidated by guns. But I am going to operate on the assumption that anyone aiming one at me is going to use it, therefore my *only* option if I can’t run is to try to take them (and anyone with them) with me.
Never pull a gun on anyone you aren’t prepared to shoot. And always assume that if you don’t kill them they will feel utterly entitled to kill you and probably anybody related to and/or near you.
I’ve only ever held a weapon on someone once, and that was a crossbow (albeit one with a very nasty tip).
I get your point; you are convinced that Arbry was a thief and that those three were doing the right thing, or at least convinced they were; I am of the opposite opinion, that they had nothing but a hunch and an assumption.
If you pull a weapon first, you are 100 percent responsible for anything subsequent that happens, no exceptions, exclusions or extenuating circumstances; just as if you take the first swing at a person, you should have to utterly take *ALL* consequences of everything that happens afterwards.
You are starting from the assumption the three did nothing wrong; I am starting from the assumption that they were entirely in the wrong, from presuming Arbry was a criminal casing the joint, to playing vigilante, to chasing someone, to aiming a weapon at someone they didn’t *already* have 100 percent justification to kill.