Examples such as:
1) If you are awakened at 2am because some thug has broken your car window to gain entry to it. But you are inside locked up nice and tight ane he/they do not even see you but you run outside with your gun and do not even call the police. In this example no person was in any immediate lethal danger. IMHO
2) Now if you and your loved ones pull into the drive way and he/they try to get at your family by breaking windows to gain entry then everyone in the car will naturally feel that their life is in immediate lethal danger. IMHO
Now in the first example some may say that you should run outside and hold the thug for the police. Well what if he is not alone?? What if he/they have guns too and as the result of a shoot out one thug or two are killed. Well the thug's crying moms will see you in civil court(goodbye home and savings for the family). Plus you just may be in some very, very hot legal water as well.
My personal opinion is that I am willing to die and go to prison for human life, but NOT AT ALL for glass and I'm sure that 99.99% of us feel the same way.
Thank you

NuBee