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Originally Posted by mikesouth
If thats your teachable moment so be it. To me the moral is that with one stroke of a pen I wouldnt have had the choice to take my destiny into my own hands, id have been left with no choice other than to be a victim if the cops werent there quickly....now imagine instead of a high traffic area we were in a rural area where the cops might not be so nearby...then what? Still think it would have turned out "exactly as it did"?
You wanna cower in a closet and wait for the good guys to come riding up be my guest, but don't attempt to take away my choice to defend myself.
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Had he burst through that door you would have likely been fully within your rights to shoot him. However, you could have locked the bedroom door (if it locked) or maybe pushed something in front of it to slow him down, then gone into the bathroom (if the bedroom has a bathroom connected) and done the same. Put two more doors between you and him. If he gets through those two doors he leaves you with no other option, but to shoot. You call it cowering in the bathroom, I call it trying to get through life without having the guilt of shooting someone on my conscious.
Also, was this place on the ground floor? If so could you have gone out the back door?
You likely had other options, but you likely did nothing illegal or even wrong. It is all a matter of choice.
Either way, I can understand what you did. Many people would have done the same, but it seems kind of funny that you pat yourself in the back for not shooting through a door.