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Originally Posted by neverforever  OK so we have come to the conclusion that most wont murder someone but could kill someone out of self defense. Ive got a possible situation what is your first response to it.
You are in a room and you have a 9mm pistol in this room you see a kid lets say 11 years old holding what appears to be his sister at gunpoint. Could you shoot to kill him or not. Its defense for the little girl. |
No I could not, first of all you said he "appears to be" so he is not definitively holding his sister at gunpoint, He is also 11, so he probably isn't understanding what exactly he's doing, and I would have no way to know the true circumstances of the situation (i.e. he is just showing her the gun, or he just happened to be "appearing" to point it at her when i looked, but what was actually doing something else)
I do think this hypo raises another interesting question however, say that the circumstances were a little more defined, and the boy is 16, pointing a gun at his girlfriend and he himself tells you he is going to kill her, you have the chance to kill him but don't.He then kills his girlfriend. Is this viewed as murder in your eyes? In the eyes of the court? Just wondering