The Daily News

[Roy Karrde]

Suppose the man is mentally ill. Does he deserve to die then?
Suppose the man is homeless and only needed money to feed his family - and made a poor choice. Does he deserve to die then?
Hell, let's get really weird - suppose the man's being blackmailed into threatening you. Does he deserve to die then?

All of the answers to those are yes, the man has threatened your life, he walked up and basically got into the mindset of "Its either me or him". You do not have time to play a guessing game. You either take action, or you yourself basically forfit the claim on your life as well as the ones around you.

My mentality would change greatly if I were switching my gun away from a sheet of paper and towards a living being. The training would be useless at that point.

At the point that you have to actually pull your gun out, at that point you are running on so much adriniline and going on the mindset of killing this person. That the training you have will pretty much guide your body.

A claim to one's life is something that can never be lost.

Yeah it is, when he steps toward you and points a gun at you, he has gotten into a "Me or You" mindset. He has lost any claim to his life when he decided to try and take yours for money.

To think otherwise is barbaric:

To act in any other way is stupidity and reckless.

Shooting the guy in the knee or the arm holding the gun should be sufficient.

Problem with both is you are risking the chance of him shooting you back, especially if you do not aim to kill. Hesitation will cost you your life, and could cost you the lives of others. That man is coming at you to kill you, not doing the same is utter stupidity.

Overpowering and subduing him should be a responsible gun-owner's top priority, not mercilessly gunning him down in cold blood.

Well for one if the man is pointing the gun at you that is not cold blood that is self defense. Second the top priority of any gun owner at that time should be killing him. Becuase giving him any chance to shoot back at you, gives him a chance to kill you. And as I said, the others around you. Trying to subdue or overpower him, shows a lack of responsability and judgement on your part, and it puts the lives around you on the line.