Eh, parents proud.....? if someone broke in and I shot them, I’m fairly certain that I wouldn’t shoot 8-9 times. But if I lived and the burglar died, I’m fairly certain they’d be ok with that.
People living way out in he country usually do so for a reason. If they hunt, then they know how to set up an ambush or lair in order to rid themselves of predators.
The little POSs could have killed them but got caught instead. They would’ve eventually screwed up and maybe hurt some other old person and now they are retired from robbing. He did the community a favor and the other little maggot that was a look out should be charged with murder. If the old guy is charged.
I have no particular problem with him shooting them. He had no particular way to know whether they were armed or not.
I have a big problem with his coming back some time later and deciding to finish off the wounded. As I said, this is a war crime under US military law and is punished as such, as it should be.
Is there some reason you think civilian Americans should be held to a lower standard of conduct than our soldiers dealing with enemy wounded on the battlefield?