Almalieque wrote:
Gbaji wrote:
In this case, after the fact, sure. But if you were wrong, then what? Guy pulls his gun out from under the covers. Kills you. Kills your other children. Rapes and kills your daughter. Good job protecting your family there numbnuts.
Good thing that there are more options than "do nothing" and "shoot kid in head".
Not at that moment, no. I get that people always love to second guess cases like this and insist that the father should have waited until he was absolutely certain that the other guy was pulling some kind of weapon. But that's something that's really easy to say when you aren't the one who has to make that decision. Odds are that waiting until you are sure is waiting too long. And frankly, you put me in that situation, I'm pulling the trigger if the other guy so much as twitches in a way that could even possibly be threatening.
His life isn't worth enough for me to take that chance. Period. I know that may sound selfish, but if it's "my families life versus some random guy I don't know", that's a no-brainer choice. Sorry random person I don't know, but that's just the way it is.