Someone who gets it. Reading these threads lately is like reading DU.
All that said, I wouldn’t have gone after those two even though under my state’s law I would have been perfectly justified in chasing them even after they had fled my home and land.
***No, I’m not second guessing the guy on the ground - he was there, I wasn’t. I am only saying that while his course of action would have likely been fully legal in my state I would have done things differently. It is highly probable that he had not thought out or planned out a scenario like this while I have. I think he did damned well for what resources he had to hand.***
I am, however, going to treat this as a scenario for discussion and education.
Let’s look at the scenario (which, as we have the leisure of time to ponder, we can whereas the victim was assailed and didn’t have time to think everything completely through). You are an older or infirm person living alone. You find two much younger, much fitter miscreants in your home. They immediately attack you and begin beating you. You are seriously injured beyond whatever normal handicaps you may have; your collarbone is broken, you feel excruciating pain when you attempt to move your arms. You miraculously manage to get to your pistol despite the beating and the assailants flee.
Again, the guy on the ground made the decision he believed to be right at the time and I’m not going to second guess him there. However, the rest of us can plan ahead so we don’t have to make snap decisions.
I think I would choose not to pursue. Already injured, not in the best of shape, probably bleeding profusely. Sight and hearing probably degraded, injuries seriously degrading the ability to defend myself, already know there’s two assailants out there in much better condition, don’t know how many more are out there or even whether they brought friends or not. I would fall back to the most defensible room in the house, preferably one with only one entrance or exit, light up the door so anyone entering is blinded by the light but unable to see me, sit there with my weapon trained on the door and call 911.
But that’s just me. I wasn’t there.