Put the blame where it belongs... On the thieves. Your constant smearing of this guy is what does the damage to our 2A and self defense rights.
As it stands right now, we only have his claim that they broke in and that they were thieves.
That being said, the most logical assumption is that they did break into his house and were there to rip him off. Because they did that, they were asking to get shot.
The problem, as I've stated before, is not with his shooting them (certainly not with his shooting the first intruder), but with his decision to murder them after he - by his own statements - saw that they were unarmed and badly wounded.
Killing them after the fact is simply murder. That's the way the law works and has always worked.
Your constant smearing of this guy
I haven't smeared him. His own statements are damning. There's no need to add to what he has already said about himself.
is what does the damage to our 2A and self defense rights.
This is incorrect: one of the main arguments in favor of 2A and self-defense rights is that law-abiding citizens have a Constitutional - and really pre-Constitutional, God-given - right to self-defense.
When armed citizens turn around and break the law - and use firearms to do it - they are strengthening the argument of the fascists who claim that citizens do not have the self-control to exercise their rights freely.
Smith broke the law, and broke it in an egregious fashion. By defending his actions and claiming that they were acceptable and that any armed citizen would or should do the same, is to proclaim that we are lawbreakers and that we lack the self-control necessary to discern between right and wrong.
Smith is an outlier whose statements reveal that he has serious mental problems. He does not represent the average armed citizen. The average armed citizen should be disgusted by his actions.