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@**caution**opinion_ahead wrote:

You are overlooking a crucial difference.

 

In one scenario, multiple armed intruders were in the room with the occupants (which included a small child).  In the other, an intruder, maybe or maybe not armed, was at best a figment of the imagination and at worst a concoction to cover up a hot-tempered murder.

 

I don't think 5 yrs is too short, BTW.  I do think 10 mths, in a single room (as it was referred to, not "cell"), in a hospital wing is, especially when these conditions were negotiated in advance of the sentence being delivered ... and in advance of the judge piously intoning "We cannot have one law for the rich and famous and one law for the poor".  Are we to believe then that every person convicted of manslaughter and given a 5 yr sentence is afforded these concessions? 

 

 

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The crucial difference is that OP took preemptive action to prevent what he thought were intruder/intruders from getting into the area where he and his girlfriend were.

In the case of Senzo Meyiwa he did not have this opportunity to take action and ended up dead!