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The OP's scenario brings to mind an old hypothetical situation: you're in a store somewhere, say getting something off a bottom shelf, and you look over and a robber is holding a gun on the clerk. Do you take him out, or continue hiding behind the display?
One argument is forget it - your life is not in danger as long as you keep hiding; a few dollars out of cash register isn't worth taking a human life, etc. etc.
The other argument is to take him out - Death Row of full of people, like the one in the OP, who robbed convenience stores, then shot the clerk.
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