In the end, our principles are all we really have.
And I have a hard time believing that even a Seattle jury would convict a business owner or employee who shot someone who was preparing to throw a firebomb an occupied building. If that’s true then your city is truly lost and you should be making plans to get out as soon as humanly possible.
A firebomb is one thing... that’s a matter of life and death. Smashing windows is not. I think that’s where appropriate use of deadly force is open for discussion.
I don’t live in Seattle, I just work here. Most of the time it’s a great place to be, it just whacks out now and then.