The use of arms to defend and protect you and yours is justifiable retribution. (Sounds good and I hope I'm right.)
Retribution is vigilantism, but defending and protecting you and yours, including property, is not retribution. Hunting the SOB down the next day, week or month, and shooting him, that would be retribution. Better to kill or at least severely wound him in defense, it will make the police's job of bringing him to justice so much easier, especially if he's dead.