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It's very hard yes, but did anyone notice what is missing?
I'm not implying any vindictive intent, but she never once made a sound someone outside could have heard, said "I have a gun," etc. She was paralyzed by fear, by a man who was clearly drunk and at the wrong house...
I'm not implying she did something wrong legally... But morally... Being so afraid that wait quietly in the house for someone who is clearly mistaking your house for another, mad because his truck isn't out front where he expects it, is locked out of what he thinks is is his own house by someone inside it... A few words could have at least bought some time.
She's clearly very upset that she 'had to' shoot him, yet did not one thing to solve the obvious problem, shout: "Hey, you're at the wrong house!"
It bring up the argument... Should people so easily paralyzed by fear have deadly force at their disposal? Ready to kill, but not ready to shout? Just skulk quietly inside waiting for him to break in and then bam, you're dead!
I don't drink, but I know people make stupid mistakes like that when they are. Why silently do nothing waiting for the chance to kill the guy?
she's going to have some hell to deal with in hindsight. Sure, she had the 'right' to blow away a possibly dangerous intruder. But this 'intruder' was just some dumb drunk slob that didn't know where he was, and this was very, very, very obvious.
Were this a man, and the dispatcher a man, is there any doubt the shooter would be on death row right now? None. None whatsoever. Neither she, nor the dispatcher suggested the simple, not shooting anyone solution to this situation.
If we all handled confrontations this poorly, the 2nd Amendment would be long gone. Think all the trauma she caused herself! She's gonna feel like crap for a damn long time. Especially if she ever realizes all she had to do was shout: "Hey, this isn't your house!"
He's probably poor, so who cares, right?
How dare I point this fact out.... Flame away.