Should You Act? - Get Involved Or Run Away?

[OtterbatHellcat]

As mentioned, this is a good thread to be talking and thinking about.

I know nobody wants to see the "what if this?" kind of shit show happen here, and there are lots of "what if's" to contemplate. We've all heard about or seen stories about situations that occurred, video or whatever.....but you do need to think about what you might do if you are caught up in one that is developing right in front of you. I live in a bad crime area right off of one of the seediest streets in Denver. I frequently walk to the 7-11 for stupid shit from time to time, at any given time of day. Just recently on this seedy street, a quickie mart shopper was shot and killed during a robbery while exiting the store.

I have to confess that in my mind I've already kind of decided that if I can stop any type of active mass shooting, I will act. With that said, that means while I carry to protect myself, it would stand to reason that if I can save the life of an innocent who is in the midst of imminent threat of becoming deceased....I should try to help. The different categories of emotional aspects could vary between gratification in the justified dusting of a douchebag, guilt from dusting a wannabe with a toy gun, life long guilt from a clerk dying because you didn't act when you could have, and insert all the other things that can go wrong during an intervention of the given situation.

The legal side of stuff is so effed up we can't even really get in depth with that crap because it could get messy so many different ways that are going against you, it's sickening.

Let's say I approach the store entrance, see the clerk at point blank, I be a good witness and duck away quick and call 911..... actor shoots clerk and exits store while I'm answering stupid questions from the 911 operator, and actor sees me: THEN....... (enter infinite storyline possibilities here.)

If Roberth changed the title to add Run Away....that's what it literally means. I would have to run my ass somewhere safe to call 911 while under good cover, and abandon somebody that needed help in a bad fukin way. It's a really damn hard deal to make that kind of decision in a matter of seconds without question.

[mattiooo]

There are never guarantees it will work out for your saftey or your legal well being, but it's nice to hear about when people don't get punished for doing something to help:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.3311837

[OtterbatHellcat]

but it's nice to hear about when people don't get punished for doing something to help:

Yes it is, and I do pray that I'm never in a situation where I have to face that kind of decision to protect someone else or not to.

If somebody died because I did nothing when I could have, it would eat at me the rest of my life.... I know it would.