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Originally Posted by Wise_A
Among things that are different:
(1) He's not necessarily shooting at me.
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Which gives you the opportunity to shoot him in the back.
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Originally Posted by Wise_A
(2) This is not a vehicular ambush. This is a massacre in a parking lot. Two different things. My "all available firepower" is a single handgun magazine at a time. Even the smallest group of soldiers would be--what? Four guys with rifles, 30-round magazines each? Grenades, that sort of thing? In other words, parity in terms of equipment, which I wouldn't have in dealing with the armed-nutcase scenario.
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If I'm in or in close proximity to a vehicle... ANYBODY'S vehicle that can be driven, it becomes a "close vehicular ambush".
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you've never been in the military. ONE person in a vehicle is boringly common.
No manned vehicle the U.S. Army has ever employed could travel 2,300 feet per second.
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One thing is not like the other. You can't even compare them in terms of ethics or duties.
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They're shockingly like each other.
But if you're content to run away and let others be slaughtered, that's you're right. The police have no legal duty to protect individuals and neither do you.
Your ethics are purely your own.