The question is whether they were objectively in mortal danger, or is the mere feeling that you “might be” in mortal danger enough to freely deploy lethal force as often and as frequently as you like?
People are notoriously bad at being objective about situations involving themselves. This goes triple in the heat of the moment when stuff is going down and passions are high. A self-measurement of “I kinda felt like I might die” really what we’re going to use as a standard for our society to determine whether we can legally kill other citizens or not?
I mean, if we held our police up to these same weak standards of self defense, they’d be killing people left and right under the banner of self-defense every day, wouldn’t they? Is that OK?
