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<blockquote data-quote="Zombie_Babies" data-source="post: 6215261" data-attributes="member: 6750039">Doing things that are not normal and potentially preparing to commit a crime are not sufficient reason for a private citizen to kill you.&nbsp; 'About to commit violence' and 'imminent personal threat' are two very different things.&nbsp; She is not a law enforcement official.&nbsp; She doesn't get to make these calls.Actually, some people are arguing the threat was immediate.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Again, I don't think she did anything I don't understand.&nbsp; The thing is, understanding why she did something doesn't make it legal.&nbsp; Emotion has nothing to do with that.&nbsp; In this case, though, it appears that's exactly what happened.&nbsp; People understood the why and stopped thinking about what she actually did.&nbsp; They convicted her of a lesser crime and gave her probation.&nbsp; She deserved more.Right.&nbsp; She believed he intended it.&nbsp; Well, last I checked that's not enough to permit someone to kill someone else.&nbsp; And even if her belief was true - something we cannot prove - that still doesn't make her judge, jury and executioner and it still doesn't mean that murder was her only course of action.&nbsp; If she knew that she could have left.&nbsp; She could have called the cops.&nbsp; She didn't.I'll never understand why some of ya'all keep acting like murder was her only option.&nbsp; It wasn't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zombie_Babies, post: 6215261, member: 6750039"] Doing things that are not normal and potentially preparing to commit a crime are not sufficient reason for a private citizen to kill you. 'About to commit violence' and 'imminent personal threat' are two very different things. She is not a law enforcement official. She doesn't get to make these calls. Actually, some people are arguing the threat was immediate. ;) Again, I don't think she did anything I don't understand. The thing is, understanding why she did something doesn't make it legal. Emotion has nothing to do with that. In this case, though, it appears that's exactly what happened. People understood the why and stopped thinking about what she actually did. They convicted her of a lesser crime and gave her probation. She deserved more. Right. She believed he intended it. Well, last I checked that's not enough to permit someone to kill someone else. And even if her belief was true - something we cannot prove - that [I]still [/I]doesn't make her judge, jury and executioner and it [I]still [/I]doesn't mean that murder was her only course of action. If she knew that she could have left. She could have called the cops. She didn't. I'll never understand why some of ya'all keep acting like murder was her [I]only [/I]option. It wasn't. [/QUOTE]

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