C’mon, don’t be like the people who actually believe I jog and swim with a gun lmao! I’m just trolling the trolls. I wouldn’t kill someone who was mentally unstable unless my life was in imminent danger. And such an individual would have to be mentally unstable because he’s basically committing suicide in that spot. I’d also consider if he felt justified in burning my house down. Does he feel I wronged him somehow? Etc.
But I also think you’re correct that for many, it’s a matter of right and wrong. If I knew a guy was trying to burn my house down just to be an asshole or wrongly taking a grievance out on me, I’d be much more inclined to exercise my rights under the law. You say this is about guns and wanting to kill someone, but let’s take it down a couple notches and use a real life example that happened with a buddy of mine…
The way he tells it, his sister who was 8 months pregnant lived in a large apartment complex with assigned parking. Her neighbor who is a giant dick kept parking in her space causing her to drive around each time searching for a spot at least another 100 yards further away. This really sucked when she had groceries and would have to make several trips. She confronted him several times and also told the management company, but he kept doing it. She was nice at first, but the last time things got heated and the guy slapped her so hard that her earring came off causing her to bleed…
Now if a guy slapped your pregnant sister that hard would you want to have a “talk” with him? If not, then you are a pacifist, which is fine by me. And I can already anticipate people trying to dunk saying, “There’s a big difference between fighting a guy and shooting them dead you moron!”, But I submit that once you accept violence is sometimes justified ,you are now just quibbling over degrees. If you take pacifism to its logical conclusion then violence as a form of retribution or scare tactics should never be the answer. If you are not, then violence up to, and including lethal force is morally justified
This is different than saying guns don’t kill people, people kill people. What I’m saying is that my moral compass allows for violence in certain instances and I think it would be inconsistent of me to quibble over the level with which it is used. Had my buddy been shot and killed, I’d place the blame and cause of his death squarely on him even though I wouldn’t think he deserved it. He made the decision to go over there and beat the piss out of the guy. What I’m saying is violence is violence and if you commit a violent act or threat then you should be prepared for any level of violence in return. That’s the right and wrong of it for me. I haven’t been in a physical altercation since high school. I go out of my way to avoid them. Had I been the guy in the video Melkerson linked I never in a million years would’ve went back in to get a gun. This avoidance is because I don’t want to kill anyone and I don’t want to be killed
That’s my piece. Everyone is now welcome to point out inconsistencies and poke holes in my thinking