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 daedalus wrote:
If he had only been armed, this would have never happened.


^ I don't even know what side that's arguing for in this context.

It's arguing that a member of the public who was legally allowed to carry a weapon shot a criminal rather than a criminal shooting an innocent member of the public.

I drove past a place today where a few years back a man had been gunned down while at work having cooperated with a criminal. There's no guarantee that a criminal with a gun is going to let you live if you cooperate, a lot of them are on drugs to begin with.