Do you have a family?george wrote:Hi,
There is no way I will shoot someone if all they want is my wallet, or cash, or car.
If I believe my life, or my wife's life is in danger, then they will be shot.
Let's say you get robbed as you exit your vehicle, they take your wallet, car keys and phone. They take your car and immediately head to your house (They have you wallet, with your ID in it... so they know your home address). They use your garage door opener in your car, or they use your key they stole to get in the door, they beat and rape your wife and any female (or even male these days) children and leave them to die... all before you could find a phone to warn them. Admittedly far fetched... but not impossible.
Best case, they dig through your wallet and find a CHL, stake out your house some day in the near future and wait for you to leave for work, then kick in your door and look for other guns that they can steal... and maybe beat and rape your wife...
If you don't have a family, then the worst you could expect is to come home one day to find your place ransacked, and they will keep coming back again and again because you have shown yourself to be spineless.
The point of the story is that there are clearly things involved here that you have not thought all the way through.
I absolutely will shoot to stop in any robbery situation, no second thought, no hesitation. There is too much riding on it for me.