That all is fair. It’s probably illegal here, but the theif would have to report it, which would get them caught, the cops may or may not care and would likely consider it deserved, and the district attorney would likely consider it political suicide to press charges.
I’m not saying this is how a society necessarily should be run, but here the controversy would be if you applied deadly force to a pickpocket, while a few hits with fists as a “don’t you dare try that on me again” would be publicly considered warranted, even among people who oppose the police doing such things and the use of unnecessarily deadly self defense.
And your opinion on our gun violence is fair and respectable. We should’ve joined Australia in their response to the mass shooting epidemic back in the 90s, but currently no solutions are currently feasible and we have managed to develop bigger problems at the moment.
That all is fair. It’s probably illegal here, but the theif would have to report it, which would get them caught, the cops may or may not care and would likely consider it deserved, and the district attorney would likely consider it political suicide to press charges.
I’m not saying this is how a society necessarily should be run, but here the controversy would be if you applied deadly force to a pickpocket, while a few hits with fists as a “don’t you dare try that on me again” would be publicly considered warranted, even among people who oppose the police doing such things and the use of unnecessarily deadly self defense.
And your opinion on our gun violence is fair and respectable. We should’ve joined Australia in their response to the mass shooting epidemic back in the 90s, but currently no solutions are currently feasible and we have managed to develop bigger problems at the moment.