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Quote by: Chaossaber314  But it's perfectly fine to gun down the kid clutching a roll of toilet paper who is guilty of criminal mischief in the night. Yes they have to be committing a crime a to be legally killed, but the fact is that the vast majority of the crimes associated with this law (such as the one I find particularly problematic) do not carry the death penalty when the individual is actually granted due process under the law. Fact is, people shouldn't be shot for petty crimes. A law stating otherwise is inherently unjust. |
No, "the vast majority of the crimes associated with this law do not carry the death penalty" but ultimately, since all laws are enforced at gunpoint, any crime can be escalated by a police officer to deadly force.
If a police officer attempts to stop you for jaywalking, and you run, the officer can pursue you. If you end up caught and fight him while he's trying to restrain you, he CAN shoot you. You may want nothing more than to be left alone, but, the escalation of the "crime" of jaywalking, could end up in your death.
No one here is saying that they want to kill a kid for TPing their house. All they're saying is that, if they confront someone in such a situation, and things escalate for whatever reason, that the doubt should go to the person who was defending their property and their rights.
Nothing more.
An exact parallel, with far more justification, than a fully trained "professional" trying to apprehend a "suspect" for whatever crime would have for drawing his "service weapon" and firing a shot.
Or, if we could draw a parallel, I would be more justified in shooting a kid who has violated my property in the dark, if I perceived a threat, than a highly trained, professional law enforcement officer has in tasering a 20-something speeder, in the back, in broad daylight on the side of a busy highway.
Keith