Do Those Administering 2nd Amendment Justice Get More Leeway?

   Had it been police officers pulling the triggers in those Utah County shootings this past week, I'm guessing there would have been an outcry.
   It should make us wonder if gun rights advocates aren't accorded a greater right to kill than are our men and women in blue. Of course, these are times police are being scrutinized. Still, it should jar us a little that a person, hailing that he or she is operating under the banner of Second Amendment rights, can kill with greater impunity than an officer of the law.
    Consider those two Utah County cases, if you will. In one, a carjacking was underway in a parking lot, and a person with a concealed weapons permit noticed it, came over, and stopped it. He noted the unarmed carjacker lunged to take his gun from him, and he shot and killed him to stop him.
   Now, suppose it had been an officer. Had an officer pulled the trigger, would we be questioning why the officer shot an unarmed person?
   Then, case two. A man came pounding on someones door, but the homeowners didn't respond, so the man crawled up a floor and onto the balcony to get in. The homeowner noted he went to the balcony door to talk to the intruder, who then forced his way in. The homeowner shot him in the chest, killing him.
  The intruder was drunk, and lived just buildings away in the same housing development, and likely, in his confused thinking, thought he was entering his own home.
   Now, what if the homeowner had been an off-duty police officer and had been the person pulling the trigger? Would there have been outrage if it had been police officers doing these two shootings instead of others? Would there at least have been much more intensive investigations?
 Yes, I do wonder, if at the moment in America, those who administer Second Amendment justice aren't given freer rein to pull the trigger than officers are.
  Note: Blog shortened 5-7-15. I had been of the misunderstanding that the cases were no longer under investigation, but after reading on the Internet tonight (5-7-15), I understand that they yet might be, especially the homeowner/intruder case.