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Originally Posted by Seanland
I'm not saying generally hes the guilty one. I'm trying to say that his actions were a little too much.. the newspaper says he came running in the shop to call the cops.. which obviously means, the kids ran away, but the question really is, at what shot did they run away...
I mean if they ran after the first shot... and the guy just kept shotting at them... how innocent is he?
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Given the situation and at how much of a disadvantage that this person found himself I'm AMAZED at the level of restraint that he demonstrated in only firing 5 rounds. I'm familiar with guns, and from a semiautomatic weapon on a full pull I can empty a 15 round clip in about 2.5 seconds.
Have you ever fired a gun? Or been presented with a situation that you overreacted to? With the amount of adrenaline that's inherent to an encounter like this with a semi-automatic pistol 5 rounds would quite literally require less than 1 second to discharge.
I worry that in a situation like this the people doing the attacking are going to be favored because of an abnormal sympathy felt for the man protecting himself because he had a gun.
As it's been said, if he hadn't been able to defend himself with force the most likely result of this encounter would have been him ending up in the hospital or worse, and then this thread would have been our moral outrage at the six teenagers and how could they possibly do this to another person?! Instead we're now questioning whether this mans actions were justified and turning him into the bad guy in a situation that he had very little control over.
Oh yeah, and read it again, the kids didn't run away, even after shooting the 2 of them they were so drunk and aggressive that they stayed at the scene!