Wow... quite an interview. I got this too, in the FrontSite e-newsletter.
Something that many of us don’t usually consider: the aftermath of even the most righteous of self-defense events is still often a very serious ordeal. In reading Ayoob on the topic he has some very enlightening points:
Your family and friends will see you differently, and many of these relationships will become awkward at least for a while. You’re a killer now. Righteous, no doubt, and even having saved their very lives right in front of them— but make no mistake— they saw you kill. Brutally take a life. The ugliest of things. That’s going to have a profound effect on them and on their view of you and your view of yourself. Not that you wouldn’t do it again, or that they aren’t grateful for your all still being alive to tell the tale, but it does change things.
It doesn’t mean that you don’t pull the trigger when the time comes. It’s just something to think about in case it ever happens to you or someone you know. IMHO.
Good stuff to remember.
Thanks.