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Originally Posted by jimbomaybe
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,
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He was on his way out of the diner. He was finished robbing people. He had succeeded in that part of his task - to threaten with a (fake) gun and rob them.
He wasn't shot until he had turned to leave the premises. He was shot multiple times in the back. On his way out. What the shooter did, was take the law into his own hands, and shot a man who had already committed his crime and had stopped committing it in order to leave.
In other words - he had ceased threatening anyone at the time he was shot. He was no longer threatening to kill anyone, shoot anyone, rob anyone, steal from anyone, hurt anyone. He had already done what he came to do, at that point, successfully, without anyone being physically harmed.
He should be alive, in prison, and charged with the crimes. He should not be dead by the hands of a civilian who had no authority to shoot someone who was no longer committing the crime for which "protecting" and "defending" would have been appropriate.