Fine, mea culpa. How about a neighbor wondering why the door was swinging open? Somebody asking for help during a breakdown, etc?
The door was not swinging open - it was closed, and unlocked.
I live in the country on a little over 8 acres. My nearest neighbor is the cemetery next door. I often forget to lock one of my doors. I even sometimes sleep with a window open (during the winter!). If I heard someone coming through my unlocked - but closed - door, the dogs would alert me first, then I’d retrieve a self defense object and ensure that whoever, or whatever, it was did not have an opportunity to harm me or mine.
But, I’ve had range time and practice with various self defense objects (pew pew’s), and know the rules - and OODA loop.
I know. Everyone on this board is super tough, ready to shoot and kill whoever, whenever and self justifying to the ends of the earth.
But if you are a person with a real soul, killing someone isn’t ever that cut and dry. And I know that people reading this will be very dismissive, but I do not think most of the people who post this stuff have ever really thought of the spiritual aftermath. Or have ever been in a situation that is real life and death.
He wasn’t in real danger and did not check to make sure. And now he has to live with the FACT that some family is going to have a really bad Christmas and a not happy New Year because he did what he had the right to do.
However, having the right to do something and it being right to do is not the same thing.