Don't go looking for trouble, part 2

More from Huffington Post:

"We know this boy," Robert Meyers said. "I couldn't tell you this before. He knew where I lived. We knew how bad he was but we didn't know he was this bad."

The case has received significant attention since police initially said Meyers was killed by an angry driver who followed her home after she gave her teenage daughter a driving lesson."

1. Point still is, when she made it home safely, she should have stayed home, should not have gone hunting.  If there is a real threat to her safety, once she was safe, she should have called police.

"The sympathy morphed into skepticism after police revealed that Meyers was not followed home, and instead dropped her daughter off and picked up her 22-year-old son, armed with his 9 mm handgun, to try to confront the driver who had frightened her earlier.

They went looking for the driver, followed the vehicle and eventually went home. The silver car then showed up outside the Meyers' home and a shootout occurred. The mother was shot in the head outside the home."

2.  Sympathy is certainly still in order, but as noted above, there came a point in this tragedy where this poor woman went from prey to a hunter. If the car from which the shots were fired is the same car they followed, then they should not have been there.

""I did what I had to do to protect my family," Brandon Meyers, 22, said earlier this week. "Everyone can think what they have to think. I did it for a reason. And I'd do it for anyone I love."

3.  Can this young man actually think that what he did protected someone he loved.  It got her killed.  If he wanted to protect her, he would have advised her to stay home, call 911 and let LE handle it.  It is not what we "have to" think, it is the truth.  There was no reason in taking up arms and following someone.  I am glad I am not someone he loves.

Her husband:  "Are you all happy? You made my wife look like an animal," he told reporters. "There's the animal, a block away!"

4. Yes, the animal who shot his wife was a block away.  he was also probably a block away when she and his armed son went looking for him.  No, she was not an animal, but she was foolish and that foolishness put her in the path of a criminal's bullet.  Understandable that he would not be thinking rationally, but we need to if we are not learn from this unfortunate situation.

For all the grief, the answer remains the same.  This tragic slaying did nor have to happen.  It started with the foolish use of the horn in traffic and the erroneous belief that it is one driver's right to teach another a lesson.  It continued when this woman, whether scared and angry or both, decided to take her son and go hunting this other vehicle, then followed it for a while before heading home.

Do not rely on other people to act accordingly.  Be sure you are taking care of yourself, keeping your ego in check and yourself safe.