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I think these stories make the case for how important it is to make certain of the target no matter how sure you are it is an intruder. My grandmother came mighty close to shooting her grandson when he was trying to unlock her front door late one night. She did not know her phone was out and the family was worried about her not answering it. He had called out, but she had been asleep and not heard him. It was the dog barking next to her bed that alerted her. My sweet granny had handled guns since her childhood and could really hit what she aimed at and just 6 months before had been forced to shoot a man breaking into her home through the same door. The first thing my cousin saw when he opened the door was the business end of a 12 gauge. He ducked and yelled "Grandmother, its ME! Luckily, she wasn't going to shoot until she was sure of her target, but my cousin needed to sit a while before his legs would hold him up again