No, I am sorry there was serious law breaking going on.
People are not allowed to take the law or there safety in their own hands. It is against government policy! It is against the law! It could lead to vigilante justice and there is noting that elected officials fear more than an armed citizenry deciding to protect themselves. Such things could get out of hand and the mob could turn on the government.
(/sarcasm) Seriously, well done if someone killed the animal and disposed of it rather than waiting for the police or animal control to show up.
Why? It was a pet that got lost........It was a pet that wasn't a danger to anyone and never once exhibited any hostility towards anyone that had contact with it, helped feed it and had actually petted it.
This was a media driven event! A representative from "Paws for the Cause" was just now on the radio explaining that she and others had been searching for this cat prior to it being killed. They had informed the local media outlets exactly what kind of a cat it was and that it wasn't 4 ft. high as they reported. It was only 2 feet high when seated.
The media instead continued to report it as a mysterious huge cat!
As far as shooting it, discharging a firearm within a city limit here in S.E. Michigan is against the law. And likely the same in any other community across this country........
You don't shoot and kill an animal simply because you don't know what it is..........IF you do and if you support that mentality then you have no business owning a firearm or calling yourself a hunter.