Okay, this is all well and good, but this type of outcome is so rare as to be almost ridiculous. The victim managed to get the one mugger in the city with a conscience? Lucky day!

Now, what about the mugger who demands your wallet then, after you give it to him, shoots you anyway so you can't identify him? This happens far more often than the incident shown here. Are you willing to risk your life on the remote possibility that your mugger will be Mr. Nice Guy?

Any person who pulls a weapon and threatens someone with it is, by definition, a criminal and is therefore acting outside the strictures of society. Why should we feel the need to endow such a person with the safeties that society provides? By my standards he's already forfeited those safeties.

If I have a gun and he threatens me with a knife I will pull the gun and threaten him in return, with the hope that he will run off like the coward he seems to be. If he tries to attack me with that knife, or if he has a gun of his own, I will shoot. And I will shoot to kill. I would rather take the chance on going to trial, alive, than hope that he isn't going to kill me anyway.