If he hadn't been a pacifist but wearing a gun himself, he could have defended himself.
It proves that unarmed people are helpless against armed people, and only idiots think that cops are but henchmen for the criminal organisation calling itself "society".
It proves that it's too easy for a nutter like Chapman to buy a gun. It also proves that you are clueless, but then, we already knew that.
Not only that, but he was shot in the back by a total coward. Any real man with a claim against another would face off and if necessary, as in the case of challenging a pacifist, bring a gun for the challengee to use against him to make it a fair duel.
Idiot. Not that I support the murder of John Lennon for a second, but if you objectively have a good reason for killing someone, he must already have done a very great unjust to you. Why on Earth would you give him a "fair chance" of killing you on top of what he has already done to you? It's not the moral superior who wins but the best shot.
And I assume that you're not consistent enough to think that the pigs should give an unarmed burglar or robber a gun to give him a "fair chance".
By the way, the brave and competent Swedish police shot a 16 yo kid in the leg yesterday. He was "threatening" them with a soft air gun. The pigs really show over and over again that they can handle guns much more responsibly than "average people".
No, you idiot, it is about the proprieties of who is MORE right! I am not only the better man, but also the better shot. I can prove it in direct competition - in a fair fight. I have proven it in shooting games many times. I know that's not real life, but it is a real game of life.
It becomes a matter of resolve, once carried to the endgame. How much resolve do you have for your way of thinking over your opponent's? If both have equal resolve, to the end of a duel, then the actual outcome of the match becomes moot, for both parties have made their points totally obvious to those who are willing to take the game to mind.
You are a moron if you think that acceptance of, or even submission to an authority figure, is the same as caving to a superior opponent. A police officer is not an opponent, you fool, but merely an arm of the law of the land you live in. You can defeat a police officer only in the realm of the courts, not the streets, dipshit!
BTW, if you think that the attack on John Lennon was an above board and straight forward challenge between two honest men, then you are NOT a BRAVE pirate, but a scum of the earth, backshooter. Lennon was shot first in the back by a coward.
I am glad now that you did not have the guts to become an American citizen at my first invitation, almost three years ago, because I would have made good on my earlier offer and there would be yet another gun in the hands of a coward/loser. Don't you realise that it is
because of you types that all the gun laws have been proposed in this free land, attempting to remove basic freedoms from us who
CAN actually manage the responsibility of personal self protection.
You certainly have more history to learn about the land and times from which I sprang, you fucking idiot. Do you really think for an instant that I have not actually faced real life gunfire on more than a few occasions? Do you think I am innocent? Do you think that none of the pain I have caused ever matters to me? Do you think the pain I feel ever goes away? Do you think I am still here, because I have been lucky, all those times? Do you think that I hold my head down out of shame? Do you think that maybe, I might be as able as it seems?
Do you think I am asking for your respect - you're wrong. I want you to fuck off and leave ME out of your world.
I am NOT a part of it!
You seem to be lost in your own thoughts.