Reply #29: Why not call for medical assistance or administer triage instead?

[wuushew]

Firearms are inherently lethal in their design and use. Is it not logical to expect them to have a high probability of mortality when fired at someone? There was no trial and man is now dead who may not otherwise be.

Justice is not achievable through actions of individuals, only through the complex actions of the gestalt entity which is the criminal justice system. As a system it is molded and controlled through the civil and political institutions of our society. Behavior can be codified, predicted, analyzed and modified. Vigilantism introduces unpredicable and chaotic elements which in no way will achieve professed societal aims.

I am not here to defended the suspect. I am just irritated at what I perceive as in inappropriate assumption of authority to which the only response should have been a collectivist one. Criminals and suspected criminals do not exist outside the utility equation which is in any particular society. One agent of change, the vigilante determined that the risk of not acting outweighed the use of force.

One man cannot be an impartial arbiter of the actions which best serve us all.