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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by ahtihn on Thursday January 25, 2024 @02:21AM (#39127094)
Why would lethal force be justified to protect packages? That's so excessive.

The punishment for theft isn't the death penalty even in the US last I checked.

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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by yard2010 on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:12AM (#39127356)
I would say robbing trains wild west style endangering everyone involved is excessive.
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by jon-wood on Thursday January 25, 2024 @06:38AM (#39128461)
This is people climbing into the cargo cars of incredibly slow moving trains and rummaging through some packages, not putting dynamite on a bridge and blowing it up to force the thing to stop.
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by analyte123 on Thursday January 25, 2024 @09:17AM (#39129778)
There are cases where it is considered justified, although it wouldn't apply to train heists, at least in California [1]. Some have claimed the justification to shoot someone for stealing at night in Texas has a biblical origin [2].

[1] https://reason.com/volokh/2020/06/02/are-people-allowed-to-u... [2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+22%3A2-3...

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