have to have a POTUS OK to to do the right thing.
What should not be comforting to anybody is the prospect the government does not consider the involved/threatened individual as the priority.

The process of evaluating who we going to upset, who will like it, who won't like it, are we sure we can't talk 'em out of it, etc, etc.

When a country is doing the right thing to protect it's people from harm there should not have to be any concern for who reacts how to it. As a matter of fact, it is a proven behavior form that when one knows the response for a violation is imminent, there are fewer violations.

And in the State of Florida one does not have to drag the body inside if you shoot a person for just cause on your property....or in public for that matter.

BTK