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Separate from this incident, I honestly do not believe that enough is taught in CHL class about the use of deadly force.
Incidents and senario's should be discussed along with their consequences.
Thanks to everyone for their comments.

Let's see, my mother was beaten and robbed when she was 60 and about $40,000 in cash and goods were taken. No suspects ever found. My dad had two trucks stolen and drove into a playa lake and his truck shop burglarized twice. No suspects found. I have had four spare tires stolen from my truck and car at separate times, years ago I had a set of custom wheels and tires stolen. No suspects found. Had a cotton stripper stolen and no suspects.

You're right. It's time to move on to another forum.

On May 3rd I took my CHL test, got it off on Monday the 5th and DPS got it on May 8th. Pin on June 6, and checked the website on Saturday and it said it had been approved. Today I got it in the mail. I live in a rural 5 acreage subdivision just outside the city limits with a barn, horse pasture, and a gravel drive that circles around the house portion of the property. Most of my neighbors go to work and are gone during the day. My utility trailer sits in the middle of the drive, with a locked coupler. I have a guy starting to build me a pipe fence with a gate along the north side of my property to stop anyone from just driving around. Not soon enough. Just after lunch a pickup pulled through and stopped by the trailer. I didn't think a whole lot of it, probably one of the fence people. My wife was in the front bedroom and she saw them too. My house has darkened windows and it is hard to see inside and tell if anyone is at home. About 20 minutes later she told me the pickup was back and had stopped at the front of my trailer. I ran to the window and saw one of the two putting bolt cutters back into the truck. About then, my wife opens the back door and yells what are you doing before I could say a thing. In the mean time I headed to the back bedroom and got my Mossberg 500 Breacher, loaded it, and went to the garage knowing they had to drive by it on the way out. I could hear my wife calling 911 so I was ready for what ever. As they drove past on the way to the street, the driver looked in the garage and saw me with the shotgun pointed right at him. I fired one shot over his vehicle ( made sure there was nothing in the pasture in front of him ) and then the two thieves, mexicans for the record, turned onto the paved street, gunned it, and I fired another over their vehicle. Deputy showed up about 30 minutes later and took all the info. I said nothing about the two shotgun blasts. I got my CHL today, but it is not worth killing someone over a theft, but it would be if they had used deadly force. Sad thing is they probably were married, had kids, but that doesn't occur to them. Probably a lot of this type in prison right now with their kids & wife on welfare. My wife could not believe that this had happened. Everyday I tell her that she is in the minority being a nice honest person and some day I will get her to the range. This was a real eye opener for her. If I had it to do different, I could have called the sheriff, waited until they just drove off, and followed them with the police in route.