Now the problem becomes:
What can we learn from this unfortunate event?
Don’t get me wrong, I, just as most, do not look forward to this situation. Frightening, sad, unfortunate, tragic, painful, horrible, all words I think fit this event.
I could add anger, as an owner of a home I am frightened by the prospect that because this person protected himself and his home from an armed intruder he will likely be forced to abandon his home, may have a massive loss to his financial position because of this event. Was forced to pay thousands in legal fees. (anyone know if a fund to assist this man was ever established?) Of course everyone who posts of the horror the man will live with knowing and remembering that he ended a life is correct, that man did not ask for that...
What can we learn, if a thief forces you to defend yourself you will be forced into the legal system that will ruin the victim (you).
You may be found by an unfriendly and unfair legal system to be innocent of wrong but that finding will be expensive and politically charged.
You can expect an element of the community to add you to the we hate you list and this may make living in your home impossible.
Thinking of this for the last few days I have yet to see an UP side to any of it, outside of the fact that the victim is alive and was not found dead from the thief’s pistol in an emptied house.