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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
The robber didn't actually ever physically harm anyone. The shooter killed someone. If the robber had been disarmed, alive, he would not have been executed for the crime of robbery. The crime of robbery doesn't come with a death sentence. The shooter took the law into his own hands, and executed someone who deserved jail time - not death.
Vigilante justice only encourages people to be violent, it doesn't solve crime. It IS a crime. You don't fight fire with an atom bomb, you don't fight robbery with death.
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Hardly vigilante justice, the man was committing an armed robbery, it matters not if the gun was real or not, the use or threat of a deadly weapon , you don't have to wait and see if he is actually going to kill you before you act. In times past some armed robbery teams carried unloaded guns for fear that somebody would make a mistake and kill someone, giving everybody a date with "Sparky" The armed robber unlawfully put other in fear of their lives and one of the victims responded to that threat,