Could you kill someone ?

The question is not are you some pyscho that could go out and kill a bunch of people.

What I mean is if you were in a situation where a family member or other loved one was in a life/death situation, could you kill their attacker ?

Well, I wouldn't really know unless it really happened would I? Kill their attacker I guess yes. I wouldn't have any choice. The question is whether I'll be able to live with it afterwards... that I don't know. Hopefully I'll never have to find out eh? :D

In a word, yes. If a loved one or friend was about to come to harm because some son of a bitch was holding a gun to their head or likewise I wouldn't hesitate to kill the attacker. However that being said they would have to be in immediate danger, I could never kill someone in cold blood.

But like you say fym, I don't know I could live with it afterwards.I hope I'm never in the situation where I have to make that split second, life changing decision.

Problem is, you don't know. Some people are less hesitant to shoot someone through the head than others, often while they themselves would never suspect themselves capable of the fact.

Perhaps when someone holds a gun to a relative, you faint or freeze. It happens to a lot of people not accustomed to those kind of situations.

Killing someone is not exactly a choice but more of a natural response to a situation, you don't wake up and say to yourself, next time someone threatens my family, I kill him. Personally, I hope I don't have to kill someone, but when (;)) I do, I know it will be the only way out of the situation. I may be a pacifist, but I am also a black-belt pacifist :D.

Mr U

Thats a saying if ever I saw one, a black belt pacifist.

You are right though, it is hard to say how you would react in any given situation, I can sit here now and say I wouldn't hesitte, but I have never been in a situation.

Aren't all black belts pacifists? ;)
You're right, though. It's almost impossible to tell. Big Tough Guys might whimper, Wimps might throw themselves into the bullet's path. We will never know, and pacifist that I am, it's been a constant nagging question - uncertainty - in my mind.

I was talking to a close friend of mine, back when I was still in the army. I was with the infantry, so the possibility of shooting someone was definitely there. He was a clerk, and he once asked me if I would shoot. Not with family being threatened or anything like that. Straight out war. 'Of course,' I said...'Won't you?'
He insisted that he would never pull the trigger. Too much of a conscience, he said. Given the situations of war and the fact that I had been through more ugly grunt-mentality days than he had, I couldn't believe him. It took me a minute before realising I probably had no reason to believe myself, too. Even if it were a war and every man was for himself....would I do it? I don't know. When can a situation truly be beyond hope for each of us; enough to squeeze that trigger?

They're already dead.

It really depends for me. If it was myself or someone I loved being attacked with the threat of death then I think i would try to defend myself or loved one but i am not saying i would end up killing the person.

hummm i coudn't kill someone in cold blood. only if i'm realy forced to do it

Who needs to kill when you can learn martial arts and disable the attacker or paralyze them... Then call the police and let them handle it from there... If that person is persistant and keeps coming back then use deadlier techniques... Or just break the attackers bones to get the message across that you don't want him there... Eventually the attacker will learn.. :)

We're more saying if there was a family member or likewise involved where they were about to be murdered, you didn't have the opportunity to take time to make a decision but you could do something about it...something permenant.

Hmm.. Jetfire, I'm not sure what techniques you are tought in martial arts, but I have learned that most blows can be potentially lethal. If there is enough power behind them, and the opponent does not receive the blow well... Whether it is a shattered rib puncturing the longue, or a tear in the stomach, you could kill someone without the intention of killing.
Knowing that I will probably focus my blows on the torso, chances are that either I or the other person won't escape alive.

This, however, I believe, is not the topic of discussion. It is rather whether you would kill someone (with a gun), be it in cold blood, or be it for a family. I thought Mac's reply was rather interesting as he is from the military. You often see brothership their between privates that comes close to or is even closer than family.

In any case, morally speaking I see nothing wrong with shooting someone to preserve me or my family, the only problem I might face in 'freezing up', the same you often see on the battlefield (which are trained profesionals, might I add (why do I always have to post long words after I just woke up, lol)).

Mr U

KILL THEM ALL !!!


if i whas in a position that i am under attack and the only way out. is to kill the attacker(s) i would do it

first i would shoot them true there knee then true there arm and finaly in the head

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but if i'm not forced to it. i woudn't kill someone

well mabey if i'm realy mad and want to kill all that get close to me

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Ah, I see... Well then, I'd kill for the sake of my family definetly... But I wouldn't use a gun... Even if I had one... I'd use the Katana. :D lol

If I had no choice but to use the gun and had no time to think about it... The attackers a goner.. Basically. :)

Yes, i probably would....

They would be deader than yesterdays bbq. Definately, anyone comes near my family with any threatening intentions of killing them they'd be going down. End of story.

Aw man, I wanted to hear more of the story. It was quite intriguing. Poopies on you, UT.

I could kill someone. If it was for someone I loved or cared for, I would try not to hesitate. There is a saying about hesitation that learned a while back, but now I can't think of it. Anyjew, I used the word 'try' because I don't know what would happen in that situation, and I would not want to hesitate, but who knows? It's hard to tell. But I sure as hell would kill them until they died from it. Filthy Commie bastards.

Aucorse and I could do it,if it was nessecary!I couldn't live with letting them kill my beloved one with me doing nothing!

It would have to depend on the weapon that was to be used. I don't think I could pysically go up to someone, with a knife, or rope to strangle or stab them, not only because I'm a pretty pysically weak person (LOL) but it makes it seem more real.

If I were to get back at someone, and actually had the balls to do it, then I would use a gun, it's the whole thought of "hunting" a person down, the mentally strong VS. the mentally weak.
I reckon I could become a hitman actually, that would be fun :p

I could kill someone. If it was for someone I loved or cared for, I would try not to hesitate. There is a saying about hesitation that learned a while back, but now I can't think of it.

I think the saying goes "Think long, play wrong" or something.

Anyway, I could do it.

If I had a strong enough reason, like if the offender had hurt one of my family or friends...then I'd be all guns...lots of guns.

Oh yeah. I'd do it.
I think anyone could answer any way s/he chooses to until s/he was put into a situation of that premise. If that were to happen, I believe many of us would go into a mode of protection, and attempt to kill the attacker(s).