The thing i'm still hearing from a lot of people ignores this simple fact: it doesn't matter if he's mentally ill, it doesn't matter if he's perfectly normal, or any other excuse you can come up with.
When it happens, at that very moment, when you're asked to stop and surrender to authorities because of your actions- saying you have a bomb in your bag- and then you reach for your bag,
you will, and should be shot. At that moment, there is no way of knowing if you're bluffing, if you're serious, if you're mentally ill, etc.- their job is to protect and save lives, and if you reach for a bag you just said contains a bomb, you will be put down, no questions.
I don't understand how anyone can take issue with this. Medication or not, illness or not, the actions taken were REQUIRED for the safety of all those on the plane, and at the airport.
And that's all there is to it.
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Originally Posted by meembo
I don't think any marshall, not matter how well trained, could not feel guilty (emotionally, not rationally) for shooting a person not in their right mind.
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I disagree. The job itself requires mental conditioning that justifies the actions taken necessary to quell a dangerous situation. Given all the factors, I don't think they'll have any "guilt" or second-guessing at all. They did what they had to do- finding out he's mentally ill, either before or after he was shot, has no bearing on his actions and their effect. They did their job well.