You have not interpreted my post correctly. Note, I indicated the “felonious activity” immediately outside my home.
Why should I not fire on an “escaping felon” immediately outside my domicile in effort to keep said-same available for the police to “clean-up”?
You might have some “liberal-style” conscience about perforating an escaping felon. For me, I’ll take my chances with the West Texas court system.
Depending on your state or even county, the legal reason not to is that it can be called murder. Morally, however, shooting to stop a person who attempted armed robbery or an armed home invasion sounds like something that makes the community safer. Police in most areas are allowed to shoot to stop a fleeing felon who poses an immediate danger to others. I approve of shooting in this situation, if local law permits [actually, I cannot think of many situations in which I don't approve of a legal shooting; there are a few, but they are rare].
Shooting a fleeing felon is not a “good shoot” if your life is not in danger.
I’ve been in a self-defense situation twice in my life, and I’ve twice had to make that split-second decision to shoot. It’s not something I would want anyone to have to make, but I made it and paid for it in anxiety while the legal system worked. In the end, nothing came of it, but too often people have opened fire on someone running away from them and found themselves in court defending their actions.
Call me liberal if you want, but having lived through this experience, I would not advocate someone open fire on anyone unless they’re in fear for their life. Naturally, if you have enough land to justify shooting someone, you probably have enough land to throw the body into a pig pen too, if you catch my drift.