Loosedhorse
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Or feel worse not shooting, and no one gets killed?I ask you; will you feel worse killing an intruder or feel worse failing to act and your family gets killed?
Or feel worse killing a confused drunk who actually posed no true threat to your family?
Or feel worse killing a true criminal without warning, when a verbal challenge would have sent him running?
Or feel worse exposing yourself to arrest and your family to the financial hardships of a trial (or two) because you shot someone, when you could have resolved things without shooting someone?
Ah, imponderables! He who gets to ask the questions gets to determine the answers.
We can "what if" this to death; but when a jury asks me why I shot someone, I'd rather be able to say "Because he was about to kill me" rather than "Because he was about to break in." YMMV.
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