regardless of how this case ends, all three of the defendant's lives are ruined.And that probably applies to those close to them. Their names and former reputations forever tarnished.
As for the victim, There are those that said that he is a career criminal. I would not dispute that. And if left to his own devices, would have ended up in a Georgia State Prison. That is no longer the case. The media, the politicians, the race baiters, the race pimps, and the professional agitators will now deify him. Streets will be named in his honor. Laws will be named after him. Buildings will be named for him. When all that needed to be done was let him go his way and he would have self destructed.
But would he have taken innocents with him? It happens all too often.
Too many of us turn from the hard choices. We all want to "let this cup pass before us." I would not have done what the McMicheals did. I would have followed him as far as I thought was reasonable, and that is it.
This business of taking guns to deal with a problem that really isn't worth someone's life is not a good idea. Neither Arbery nor the stuff he may or may not have stolen, is worth the trouble it would cause to confront him.
The only exception to this is the peace of mind a person might get from knowing a prowler has been captured and will not be coming to your home at night.