If people enter your home when you are there ,to rob you, it must be assumed that if you object they are willing to kill or hurt you.
People who are willing to kill or harm me or my wife in my own home will not be leaving it alive if I can prevent it. They may return, and what do I do then?
I once had a possum that would raid my outside work shop (partially open) and would disappear when I'd show up, of course.
So, I set out bait, hoping that he'd come in while I was there.
He did.
One .22 round later, I was rid of the critter.
Now, I'm not advocating baiting...not me, never...but one does what one must do.
Of course, if you don't remove the bait after you have rid yourself of the critter, then it's open season, I guess.
Seriously, I got your point...but the fact remains, I will not live my life in fear of whether or not a piece of excrement will attempt to rob or hurt me.
I won't give him the chance to leave and then later return.
And I think that's the way it should be.
I do not shoot to wound.