Armed Citizen, Valid Target

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-07-31 02:13pm

Only organized, easily identifiable street gangs can be treated as POWs, right? A buncha nuts in baggy clothing firing guns sideways could be summarily executed, right? If so, I'd like to request a Communist invasion of Philadelphia...

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-07-31 02:20pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Only organized, easily identifiable street gangs can be treated as POWs, right? A buncha nuts in baggy clothing firing guns sideways could be summarily executed, right? If so, I'd like to request a Communist invasion of Philadelphia...

Too late. They've already captured City Hall.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-31 03:09pm

The Duchess of Zeon wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:
But if a man can get persecuted for not wearing an uniform while defending his house and a terrorist group get POW treatment for wearing identifying headbands, won't you question whether it's moral?
It serves the higher purpose of preventing civilian deaths in War.

And he could have just put on an armband.

But if it only was him, then how would they able to identify the armband as an indicator of "uniform"?