> The jeweler probably would have gotten a similar sentence in many US States <
Yep. The video clearly shows the jeweler shooting at someone who was running away from him. But you never know. Maybe the thief had turned towards the jeweler a split second earlier, with a gun in his hand.
Perhaps one moral of the story is this. The government will be slow to protect a citizen, but quick to persecute him. So if you don’t need to take a chance, don’t.
No, the moral of the story is they have an effed up government that needs fixed, particularly in regards to self defense and confronting criminals.
I don’t give a shit if they are running or not, they pull that shit on my and/or my family and they get exactly what they deserved. Judge, Jury and Executioner? Well, since the government refuses to do their job and refuses the average citizen the rights to protect they and theirs, then yes, I will have to be all three in order to see justice properly served.
Isn’t this part and parcel of what used to be nominally called Civilization?