killing someone who is trying to rob you

[n.s.]

If someone pointed a loaded gun at me and I had to option to make him die immediately, I would take it regardless of what he was trying to do. I think that simply pointing a gun at me puts my life in enough immediate danger that taking another life is completely justified at that point. Guns misfire, people do erratic things - even the smallest chance of that gun going off isn't worth risking my life.

Having said that, I can't imagine a scenario when that would ever happen. I don't own a gun and never plan to, and even if I was somehow carrying one when someone pointed their's at me, I would think that reaching for mine would only increase my chances of getting shot.