Have people really not reacted poorly before in the "heat of the moment" or during a quick, stressful time and then looked back at it with the benefit of hindsight and realized that you could have handled it better and/or differently.
It's all very easy to sit at the keyboard drinking coffee and say what Mr. Stanley could have, or should have, done. Just try and put yourself inside his head at the time that, I suppose if you believe that part of his testimony, he believed his wife was trapped underneath an SUV. This is a farmer. This is not a highly trained soldier who has practiced and prepared for this scenario. Do you know why soldiers train for scenarios? Part of it is so they can make mistakes, review them, correct them and then do it again. And again. And again until it is second nature.
Think as fast as you can. If someone busted in to wherever you were sitting RIGHT NOW and you believed that you were in harms way, can you honestly say that you would make the ideal decision? Be honest. I honestly think most can not say that.
I won't say that Mr. Stanley made necessarily all the right decisions that day, but I don't believe that he should spend one minute in jail for the way that things played out. I can honestly say that I likely would not have handled it as well as he did as a matter of fact.
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