The point is that with range you would most likely would not be able to charge and disarm. It does not take very much time at all to pull and shoot.
Putting them a few steps away from you, not your 5 feet, means you are done for.
Simply the gun beats martial arts.

For the premise of the thread yes I would shoot someone that pulled a gun on me.




I talk like someone that knows the capabilities of a gun. As I said it depends on where you get hit. You get hit in the lungs heart brain or arteries you are in trouble, same with any wound. Get a shoot in the side hitting no vitals you are in no real danger. A gun is a tool I do not need it to teach me anything.

I never said it was not a deadly weapon. Labeling it a deadly weapon is not saying much though. Most objects can be deadly weapons. The human body can easily be a deadly weapon.

Do not be so overconfident in your aikido. Mostly a gun will overpower any martial art.

I would say do not rob people your life is worth more than risking it for a few bucks.

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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

Well unlike you I have had to face down guns and knifes.

I also know what guns can do and you still sound like a cheerleader for death.

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"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."

A cheerleader for death that is creative.

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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

Thanks I try.

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Walt Whitman
"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."

We disagree that is fine enough. I do not know about you but this argument feels all to familar. I think just letting this one go is fine enough.

I really wish more insults were like that... That one made me smile.

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May your paradise always be green, you liberties always be full, and may the ignorance of you enemies not drive you to be pro-nuke.

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

Lol. He didn't actually say that you were a cheerleader for death, but that you sound like one.

Honestly, some people in this thread do seem to take a rather hasty, callous view towards killing someone.

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I voted no.

Not only is it highly unlikely that I would have a gun, have the presence of mind to beat him to the draw, unstrap it, take the safety off, aim it at a nonlethal part, and actually shoot it, but the chances that I'd be so panicked as to completely miss or actually kill the guy over the inconvenience of a few bucks would be racing through my mind enough to probably freeze me into relative inaction.

Just being realistic. And, wow, I am nowhere near as bloodthirsty as some of you all. The tough-guy Rambo fantasies really worry me.

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Unfortunately, the Founders did not address the possibility of this nation becoming populated with obnoxious twits.

The vast majority of people would react much like you have described
and the smartest and safest thing to do is just give the person your money
and move on.

The vast majority of murders are from people known by the victim and most often from family members. Rambo fantasies have little to do with reality.

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Walt Whitman
"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."

They guy is threatening your life here. There is still a chance he will kill you anyway. If a guy pointed a gun at a cop would you say the cop was "bloodthristy"? This is simply protecting yourself.

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May your paradise always be green, you liberties always be full, and may the ignorance of you enemies not drive you to be pro-nuke.

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

My hands were in my pockets and I took the first shot through my coat.