re: Joe Mcknight's shooter, Ronald Gasser, released from custody

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This is fricking retarded.

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It's quote a strange statement.

I mean the person with the gun, who the witness identified as the aggressor (although witness statements are often terrifyingly unreliable), and ended up killing the person without a gun, looks bad given this initial information.

But just as we know that it's usually bad idea to rush to definitive judgements, that goes for all parties involved--Gasser and McKnight.

But unfortunately people will take one side and disregard any context that can later clarify and unfortunately muddy the situation.

Sometimes though terrible things happen without cruel intentions from either side, regardless if it's enough to meet a criminal conviction or not.

Take the Trayvon and Zimmerman situation; people seem convinced one or the other was some bad person with evil intentions to hard or kill the other and deserve a terrible fate. Both made errors that worsened the situation, and both were probably in primal fear response mode. That doesn't mean either was "bad" or that either "deserved" a terrible fate; they were just flawed people in a stressful situation and the outcome was unfortunate all around.