It strikes me that this fact will give her peace. She took him out. He killed himself. She doesn’t ever have to deal with thoughts that she did take a life.
Coming at this purely from a woman’s perspective here . . .
“t strikes me that this fact will give her peace. She took him out. He killed himself. She doesn’t ever have to deal with thoughts that she did take a life.”
When I first heard he alledgedly shot himself, I thought the same thing.
Especially since I had read that she was a deeply religious Christian, and always had been.
She vanquished the monster. She is the hero.
And so is the other security person who assisted her by trying to distract the killer.
Coming at this purely from a man’s perspective here ...
That is not a “woman’s perspective”. Anybody who has taken another human life, even in self-defense, is forever changed.
My thoughts exactly.
Actually, it's pretty well-documented that cops involved in fatal shootings have a much higher suicide rate than cops who haven't, even if the shooting was justified.
The only exception seems to be cops who were shot while wearing body-armor and killed the perp who shot them. The logic seems to be that, since the perp actually shot them, there is absolutely no doubt that the shooting was justified.
People who shoot perps are more often than not harrassed by the perp's family and strangers who phone them in the middle of the night to call them baby-killers and such.
Bottom line is that you're right, it's better not to have even a justified killing on your conscience.