Content-Type: text/shitpost

Subject: Self-defense booby-traps
Path: you!your-host!walldrug!prime-radiant!computer!hal9000!plovergw!shitpost!mjd
Date: 2019-10-04T14:37:46
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Suppose you suspect that person X is going to attempt to kill you when you next meet with them. So you prepare a gun, which, if used, will backfire and kill the person using it. Then you leave it in the place you expect to meet X. During your meeting, X seizes the gun and attempts to kill you with it. It backfires and kills X instead.

Have you committed murder?

And if so, are you entitled to claim self-defense?