They can’t all feel the way this Oakland, Calif., police spokesman does. He’s reacting to a pizzeria owner who shot and killed an armed robber who entered his store with two accomplices. Here’s what he said. By the way, the owner’s wife and three kids were in the restaurant when the three men came in:

“There is definitely a balance,” said Officer Roland Holmgren, department spokesman. “This thing had potential — who knows where the suspects were going to take the situation? But by no stretch of the imagination are we agreeing with or justifying what the owner did.”

Holmgren said, “We’re not saying that we want citizens to go out there and arm themselves and take the law into their own hands. We want citizens to be good witnesses, to be good report-takers and to identify suspects.”

Someone should tell this guy he didn’t “take the law into his own hands,” he defended himself and his family on his private property against armed intruders. This is not rocket science. What he should have said is, “We think this is great. We can’t be everywhere, so it’s good when law-abiding citizens, using lawfully obtained hand guns, dispatch bad guys when we can’t be there to protect them.”