UPDATE: Texas EZ Trip Shooting Of Drunk

[4th law of robotics]

168. Ah, so *you are a big guy*

therefore you don't need a gun, therefore no one should have one.

Isn't that basically "I've got mine, screw you"?

Why can't all those old people or small people or physically handicapped people just be big healthy dudes instead? Frankly being weak is an immoral lifestyle choice that warrants being severely beaten on occasion by stronger people. Really why would they be weak and small if they didn't want to get beaten up from time to time?



Amiright?

(mace doesn't always stop the guy, and not everyone can "run to their car". Implying that people deserve to get beaten if they are small or slow seems a lot like blaming the victim).

/he could have woken up the next day feeling remorseful and changed his life. He could have woken up in jail after hospitalizing (or worse) someone else. He could have gotten away with it only to murder someone else later (with his fists or a car, doesn't matter in the end). He could have gone on to be president and declared war on Canada and ultimately lost, leaving us all in the thrall of the great white Canadian menace to the north. We don't know what "coulda" happened. We just know what he did: commit multiple physical assaults until ultimately he was stopped using violence, not persuasion. And we know with absolute certainty that he won't hurt anyone again.

//I'm a decent sized guy myself (not huge, but above average without false modesty). But there are plenty of people who could beat me up because either they are physically stronger, get the drop on me, more skilled, or just so drunk/drugged out that they aren't feeling any pain or capable of hesitating. Knowing that I would hesitate to forcibly disarm the rest of the population that on average is significantly smaller/weaker than I am.