Would a Good Guy with a Gun Have Been Justified in Saving George Floyd?

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

I have never been in the military. I dont know if platoon was the right term.

Assuming this was the Army, a platoon is divided into smaller units called squads. You might have almost 50 people in a large platoon but in a serious wartime the number could be smaller with people dying etc, maybe down to 20 in WW2 Germany until replacements or maybe even organizationally they could have smaller teams for whatever reason. The squads would be quite a bit smaller, like 4-ish squads in a platoon. So, if you are talking about 4 to 10 people in US Army in WW2 Germany, then that'd likely be a squad. As an aside, the next level up after platoon is company, comprised of multiple platoons, 4-ish. [In the context I was mentioning it was from Basic Training. We had 4 platoons in our company and 4 squads in each platoon. A squad was 10-ish people. It was a long time ago for me and I do not remember an exact number. When I wrote that the drill sergeant told half the platoon to attack the 1 guy, it was squads 1 and 2 he told.]

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I had a cousin in law whose father was in World War Two. His platoon or group he was in decided they were going to rape this German woman. He told them no and they told him they were. He machine gunned them all down. He was court martialed but found not guilty. There was an elderly civilian witness everything and one man not of the platoon who was going to rape the woman but figured he wasnt bluffing and stood away.

I have never been in the military. I dont know if platoon was the right term.

I would assume squad rather than platoon. A platoon is pretty big to be raping one woman.

 

[Jarhyn]

I had a cousin in law whose father was in World War Two. His platoon or group he was in decided they were going to rape this German woman. He told them no and they told him they were. He machine gunned them all down. He was court martialed but found not guilty. There was an elderly civilian witness everything and one man not of the platoon who was going to rape the woman but figured he wasnt bluffing and stood away.

I have never been in the military. I dont know if platoon was the right term.

I would assume squad rather than platoon. A platoon is pretty big to be raping one woman.

Yeah, at the platoon level, there wouldn't be much left afterwards, and you couldn't possibly gun that many down.

That said, that's pretty fucking boss. This roughly echos the obligation that starts to sing when I try to put my hypothetical boots on the ground there.

When I look too hard at that reality, though, I can't help but cry for what I know that says about me.

If everyone knew that the majority of everyone would react that way in a clear violation of ethics there would be far fewer such events like this.