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Originally Posted by Aurora
Nah, fuck that "resolve through peaceful means" bullshit.
Theif deserved to get tackled to the ground, beat into submission and held till police arrived at the scene, worst case scenario.
If you are incapable of physically incapacitating someone without the use of deadly force when in such a scenario then too bad for your sorry incompitant ass. Don't compensate through the use of firearms... that's just cowardly.
Farmerdouche deserves to get punished.
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Dude using a firearm isn't about being mean or courageous. Owning a firearm is about responsibility and effectiveness. Yeah, maybe he could have held him down until police arrived, but he didn't. The fact of the matter that he is stealing your stuff when you don't know about it. That's one time he has the advantage, and the guy with the advantage wins. The farmer got the guy off the ATV with a truck, his advantage over an ATV was that a truck is like 5 times heavier than an ATV. He then shot the guy. Being able to use a firearm in such a manner is having an advantage over the thief. Who knows what their intention was, it doesn't matter.
Sure maybe he isn't "harmful", but he is stealing your stuff alright and that crosses the bounds of when you are determining a threat level. He is on your property without you knowing, stealing your stuff- he is up to no good and may have every intention of harming you. There is no need to think about it, because it's a grave enough threat as far as you know it.
You also bring up the mentality that "if you're too weak to defend your stuff, then tough luck". This directly contradicts the idea that you are trying to level the playing fields of the thief/farmer relationship. You think the criminal deserves a break because the farmer was "stronger", and unfair compared to the criminal, but the farmer doesn't deserve the break because it's morally wrong to kill no matter what the circumstances. According to you, if you can't physically wrestle a bad guy to save your ass, your ass isn't worth saving.
In other words, fighting the guy to the ground may be this "honorable" nonsense, but that thief isn't being honorable by stealing your possessions in the first place. Since you know he is already a dishonorable man, of course he isn't going to fight fair, and neither should you. Always use every advantage you can gain over your enemy, always have the upper hand.
In the words of Colonel Jeff Cooper: "Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you loose".