In Sweden, unless you are a police officer on duty, carrying a gun in public is against the law. Doing so constitutes a crime in itself.
In Sweden, if you shoot and kill somebody, unless you are a police officer on duty trying to capture an apparently dangerous individual, you have automatically committed a crime. If the case you described had happened in Sweden, the white man who shot the black man would automatically be found guilty of murder. He would have committed the crime of using his weapon on another person despite not being a police officer, and he would have committed the additional crime of firing on a person who was not, at the moment when the other person shot him, actively threatening anybody, and he would have committed the further crime of shooting another person to death. He would most definitely have been found guilty of murder and sentenced to - I'm guessing here - perhaps five to ten years in prison.
What about people in Sweden who kill other people in self defence? Terry, all I can say is that "ordinary people" don't do that sort of thing here. It's true. "Ordinary people" don't carry guns. Some "ordinary people" do own guns, and they usually live in rural areas and use their guns for hunting. But the idea of getting the gun you keep somewhere in your home for hunting and using it to fire on and possibly kill another person - I honestly think it's not a thing that "ordinary people" in Sweden will allow themselves to do. Heavy criminals shoot and kill other people, that is most certainly true. But shooting people is a criminal thing. In Sweden, if you are prepared to shoot and kill another person, then you are also prepared to consider yourself a member of the criminal world. Either that, or you are a police officer.
I remember a couple of years ago when a teenaged girl stabbed her father at night for terrorising his family. I don't remember what punishment she got, and I think it was relatively light, since it appeared true that the father had indeed treated his family very badly. However, this girl was not found innocent. In Sweden, you don't stab a sleeping person to death and then try to tell other people that you haven't committed a crime.
So when I say that Superman should absolutely be found guilty of some sort of crime after ripping Billy Church's heart out, then I guess I judging him according to my own Swedish morals, and according to the way he would be judged at a Swedish court. Because in Sweden, you see, he would not have been found completely innocent.
Ann
