A little dilemma

[Bozo Erectus]

Id say to him: "I dont know what youre talking about, this isnt my family. Go ahead and shoot them, I dont care. As a matter of fact, I wouldnt mind shooting them myself, pass me the gun." After he passed me the gun, Id shoot him.

 

[feline_dacat]

Would it not make better sense to shout "ATTACK!" and have *insert number of famiily members* vs one attacker?

But considering just that possibility then i'd probs stay if i was the strongest of everyone... i have this stupid disregard for myself to defend others.

 

[Lozzy_Ozzy]

Well, following the dilemna I would give my own life.

But if more options were available, we would probably all attack and attempt to disarm in.

After all, he might not be able to shoot in time, or he might miss because of the stress of the situation, or even if it did hit someone it probably wouldn't kill them outright, so they could get medical attention.

That, and I have eight people in my immediate family .

 

[Zarn]

I believe you guys missed the point. It is either you or your family that bites the bullet.

I choose to stay.

 

[newfangle]

There are about a quadrillion other similar thought experiments. They all come down to the same question:

Do you value your life more than the life of any other person?

At this point in my life, my answer would be yes.

 

[Lozzy_Ozzy]

I believe you guys missed the point. It is either you or your family that bites the bullet.

I choose to stay.

That's why I said what I would do following the dilemna first, and then what I would do if it actually happened.

 

[Zarn]

That's why I said what I would do following the dilemna first, and then what I would do if it actually happened.

In that case, I would leave the family out, anyway. I would try to disarm the offender myself. It doesn't mean I would be successful like others may claim.

 

[Winner]

Would it not make better sense to shout "ATTACK!" and have *insert number of famiily members* vs one attacker?

Yeah, I sometimes wonder how one guy with one gun with 12 rounds can control a crowd of 100 people. Maybe everybody just fears he will be among those, who will get the bullet.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Yeah, I sometimes wonder how one guy with one gun with 12 rounds can control a crowd of 100 people. Maybe everybody just fears he will be among those, who will get the bullet.

Thats true, but just make sure you arent the one who yells "Come on everybody, lets get him, he cant shoot all of us!" because that guy is always the first to be shot.

 

[Winner]

Thats true, but just make sure you arent the one who yells "Come on everybody, lets get him, he cant shoot all of us!" because that guy is always the first to be shot.

That's why you must shout it from the back of the crowd

 

[Dann]

That, and I have eight people in my immediate family .

Well my immediate family already consists of 11 adults. While if it's my extended family we're talking about, we have 42 adults. Numerically the odds are looking good.

Unfortunately they're not fighters. So one guy with a gun can cow us all.

 

[Zarn]

Well my immediate family already consists of 11 adults. While if it's my extended family we're talking about, we have 42 adults. Numerically the odds are looking good.

Unfortunately they're not fighters. So one guy with a gun can cow us all.

What kind of gun is your hypothetical thug using, if he has that much ammunition?

 

[nonconformist]

I'd pull out the hypothetical bottle of Jack Daniels I hypothetically keep in my hypothetical pocket, and get hypotheticaslly drunk with this hypothetical gunman, waiting for him to get hypothetically drunk, before hypothetically crawling away from him, and being sick in the nearest gutter.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

So let me get this straight, the only thing thats not hypothetical, is the gutter? Oh boy, Freud would have loved you!

 

[nonconformist]

All of us are living in the gutter, Bozo, my dear boy, but some of us are staring at the stars.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Thats fine, but I advise keeping a sharp lookout for the street sweeper too

 

[nonconformist]

Hah! Public services in England? Surely you jest?

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I'd run! Get to my family before he does (I know the shortcuts), warn them and take them to a safe location. Preferably to my martial-arts endued friend, who will take us to his friends. I'd like to see the nutter get us now!

And if I fail, well I can't say I didn't try

 

[farting bob]

Unless were talking AK-47 ("when you absolutely have to kill every last mother****** in the room, accept no subsitute") he wont have time to shoot all the family. So it wouldnt be too difficult to jump him. Might lose an aunt or cousin, but better than dying myself, or having the whole family snuff it.

 

[amadeus]

Well, here is my dilemma:

Suppose you are walking on the streets with your whole family, when some guy points a gun to you...

Bang. Concealed firearms permit.

I don't have one personally because I live in a small town, but if I lived in your kind of city that you describe, I would.