My brother once went to investigate a noise in the back part of his house. It was the wee hours of the night, and he went carrying a .30-30 Winchester. He met his youngest son in a hallway, trying to enter the house very quietly and get into bed without waking anyone up. By the accounts of both of them, this was a very narrowly averted catastrophe.
With kids in the home, there’s a real danger something like this could happen.
Parents of course would feel terrible if they shot their kid.
On the other hand the kids would feel terrible if the parent were killed because they saw no danger thinking the robber was their child.
I do not advocate shoot on confrontation when kids are in the home. You have to know the whereabouts of your spouse too.
Glad no one was hurt.
If my parents had a gun when I was young, I’d probably be dead, the number of times I was sneaking around outside at night. Sometimes I’d sleep in the back yard and sneak back in before they noticed I wasn’t in my bed.