Go back and look again...what I said was IF YOU HAVE THE ABILITY, you have a responsibility.
I have a conceal carry permit, I carry a firearm every day.
If I see someone beating you with a 2 x 4....
You better hope I don't think like Biker..."Well, he didn't attack me, and I have no legal responsibility to help, in fact I could be charged with a crime and get sued...best to just let it happen".
And you'd better hope I don't think like you..."Well, these bullets cost like 75 cents apiece and then there's gun cleaner, oil and patches...it's just not worth the expense".
If you have the ability, you have a responsibility? Thank God that when Jared Laughtner pulled out his gun and started firing, the person standing close by (with a concealed weapon permit and a gun) didn't pull his, because I saw him interviewed and he said that he almost drew but didn't and if he had, he would have shot someone who was trying to STOP Laughtner.
And, your comparisons are simplistic, as well as stink on ice. People who live in the same country, under the SAME LAWS are different than one country versus another.
From the way you've been posting on this, combined with your sad lack of knowledge about the Geneva Conventions and the Rules of Engagement, I think you just said you were in the military at one time to try to get others to buy your bullshit.
Well then show me the error of my ways Biker.
Where does it say in the Geneva Convention that it is unlawful to stop the wholesale murder of Civilians.
Show me in the Rules of Engagement where it is states that military force may not be used to protect an unarmed populace.
Not your opinion.
Show me the facts, with a link.
I'll wait.
nternational law recognizes only two cases for a legitimate war:
1. Wars of defense: when one nation is attacked by an aggressor, it is considered legitimate for a nation along with its allies to defend itself against the aggressor.
1. Wars sanctioned by the UN Security Council: when the United Nations as a whole acts as a body against a certain nation. Examples include various peacekeeping operations around the world, as well as the Korean and 1st Gulf Wars.
(According to this logic, the recent 2003 US sponsored invasion of Iraq as advanced by the Bush administration was clearly illegal under international law due to the facts that the US was never actually attacked by Iraq, and also that the UN security council did not authorize this war.)
The subset of international law known as the law of war or international humanitarian law also recognises regulations for the conduct of war, including the Geneva Conventions governing the legitimacy of certain kinds of weapons, and the treatment of prisoners of war. Cases where these conventions are broken are considered war crimes, and since the Nuremberg Trials at the end of World War II the international community has established a number of tribunals to try such cases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfare
Like I said......from the fucked up way you post, you apparently know nothing about the military, even though you claim to have served.