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Dragonfighter wrote::

My points are these:

• It is NECESSARY to shoot to defend yourself, your family.
• It is justifiable to defend a third party .
• It is legal to shoot someone stealing at night but I have to ask myself if it is necessary or even justifiable from a conscientious POV.
• If someone is outside banging on one of my doors, breaking into the house, garage or car, you can bet I'm going out and either run them off, apprehend or defend myself. My reasoning being I don't know what their ultimate goal is and the last thing I want is to bring the fight inside with my family.
• If I am looking at someone's back and diminishing aspect in my sight picture, the fight's over.

The Annoyed Man wrote:I don't know what that $30,000 piece of medical equipment was exactly, but even if he had tried to take it and you had shot him, and even if it was a righteous shooting, you might easily have wound up spending that much in legal fees before all the smoke finally cleared. And then there remains the other possibility that you could have shot a man for peeing on your truck. That would not look good on your resumé.

Staying indoors and reporting to police would have been the wiser choice, even though I know from personal experience that it would have been hard to resist the temptation to go outside and confront him, having made that mistake myself in the past.