Quite true. I don't think that I would have even dwelled on the issue, having been in a similar situation before. You make a snap decision, "does the BG's action warrant shooting?".The Annoyed Man wrote:I would have stayed in the house and covered them from a window while someone else called 911. But what I think is remarkable is that the HO didn't shoot the burglar with the gun. If someone is burgling my property and I confront him, and he points a gun at me like that instead of surrendering, I'm going to assume he means to use it and shoot him before he can shoot me. That boy is very lucky to be alive.
I walked in on a guy burgling my brothers TV in the front-room. He turned around, waved a power cord at me, saw my weapon pointing at him and boogied out the front door. I am sure that he was convinced that I would shoot if he had done anything else.
If he had turned around with a gun in his hand, he may not have finished the motion due to sudden trauma from a .40 caliber round.
The guys in the garage would have been eating lead based on what I saw.