xerxes xerxes:
The guy's heart was in the right place, but the easiest thing to have done was to fired a round or two over their heads and tell them to kiss the dirt until the cops arrived (and from what i saw on CNN yesterday, they just arriving on the scene when he shot the two).
It was a shotgun. Once again the aim of a shotgun isn't accurate., You aim in their general direction and fire, and where it hits is...who the hell knows?
Now for my opinion on the general issue. I think the man had every right to defend his neighbor's property. Even if let's say...there was a neighbor's trash cans in the middle of a road from a storm...you'd at least TELL them so they know its there...instead of seeing them crushed or flown into some yard a few houses away...even if they're not there...I'd grab them and put them somewhere more stable. Why? It's what a good neighbor does.
Why is this any different? I'm helping protect the home of my neighbors. I can play what if games all day with this, but the criminals made multiple wrong choices, and if they started running away...then what? They could of had a gun on the dashboard. They could of used the vehicle to kill him. We don't know. If I was in that position. I would not take a chance. At all.